"As much as 1.3 million tons of wheat would be procured during the wheat procurement campaign for the year 2010-11," General Manager

PASSCO Col. Tanveer Hussain told APP.

These centres would be established in 10 zones of the Punjab including Hafazabad, Pakpatan, Veharrie, Bawalnagar, Khaniwal, Lodhrran,Allipur, Khanpur and Khairpur districts.

Initially, the Corporation has arranged gunny bags for packing 800,000 tons of wheat while the sacks for packing remaining wheat would be purchased next month, he added.

He informed that the provincial government in line with the federal government has deviced a strategy to provide 200 bags per farmer at an average of 10 bags per acre for small and medium growers.

Tanveer Hussain said that the corporation has the mandate to procure the wheat only from punjab and facilitate the growers to sell their output on the government fixed rates.