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PESHAWAR: Businessman Forum leader and former Senator Ilyas Ahmad Bilour urged the government to allow export of wheat products to ease difficulties of the farming community and safe flour industry from destruction.

Talking to this scribe here on Sunday, the BF leader Ilyas Bilour said farmers and flour industry are on the verge of destruction due to the prevailing scenario and stating that the only solution is export of wheat products.

The businessman forum leader recalled that the former interim government of Punjab had stored 3.5million metric ton wheat in godowns and forced poor people to buy flour at the highest rates. Today, he added the incumbent Government of Punjab isn’t procuring wheat from farmers, which has created a crisis situation.

Ilyas Bilour emphasized that the federal government should allow export of wheat products like maida, suji and choker flour and to take a decision in this regard promptly so that dollars have come that will also come in it.

He said the country would gain hefty revenue in the shape of foreign exchange in national kitty by enhancing the export of wheat products and it will bring economic stability as well as ease difficulties of the farming community and safe the flour industry from destruction.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2024

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KU Jun 10, 2024 10:29am
Please wrap this around your head, 90% farmers have sold their wheat at low price to middlemen, they are in debt n bankrupt. Its the exporters who will benefit, not the farmers. Its agri-destruction.
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