Sufficient wheat stocks of 0.980mn tonnes available for local consumption

• About 0.466 million tons wheat was available with Punjab and 0.255 million tons in Sindh Government public stocks.
• The Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Service Corporation has 0.180 million tons of grains for local consumption.
• He said 1,162 wheat purchase centres had established across country to facilitate the growers for selling their products on official fixed rates.

[caption id="attachment_458384" align="alignnone" width="1024"] ISLAMABAD: Sufficient wheat stocks of about 0.980 million tons was available to tackle with the domestic consumption whereas new crop has also started to arrive in the local markets.[/caption]

According the wheat stocks data of Ministry of National Food Security and Research about 0.466 million tons wheat was available with Punjab and 0.255 million tons in Sindh Government public stocks, said Food Security Commissioner Dr Imtiaz Ali Gopang on Monday.

Talking to APP, he said Kyhber Pakhtunkhwa has about 0.103 million tons of wheat, where as Balochistan has 0.0061 million tons of wheat.

The Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Service Corporation has 0.180 million tons of grains for local consumption.

He said 1,162 wheat purchase centres had established across country to facilitate the growers for selling their products on official fixed rates.

He told that wheat procurement target of PASSCO was set at 1.8 million tonnes.

The procurement for Punjab was fixed at 4.5 million tons, Sindh 1.4 million tons, Balochistan 1 million tons and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at 0.45 million.

The minimum support price (MSP) was approved at Rs 1400 per 40 kg in order to provide better rates of return.

He said that Federal Minister had directed to devise daily or weekly monitoring procedure to evaluate procurement targets.

The Commissioner further informed that there was sufficient supply of wheat and flour in the country and the government was also going to procure extra wheat as compared to last year during this season.

He further stated that there was no need to panic as satisfactory reports have been given by respected food ministers and representatives of food departments regarding supply of flour and wheat in all provinces.