Provincial needs, price stability: TCP assigned one MMTs of wheat import task

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has tasked the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) with initiating the process of importing one million metric tons of wheat to meet provincial requirements and ensure stable prices and adequate supplies.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister (DPM/FM) Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Wheat Import on Tuesday.

According to a statement, the DPM/FM reviewed the requirements for wheat imports communicated by all provinces and tasked the TCP with initiating the necessary preparations for importing wheat.

The DPM/FM assured the meeting that the government remained committed to supporting the provinces in ensuring stable prices and an adequate supply of essential commodities, including wheat. He directed that the entire process be undertaken with full transparency and in close coordination with all provinces.

The meeting was attended by the ministers for National Food Security and Research and Economic Affairs, SAPM Tariq Bajwa, Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Food Security, secretaries of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research and the Ministry of Commerce, and representatives of the governments of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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