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Wheat procurement slashed by Punjab

by News Desk
March 23, 2021
in Business, Finance, Main, New
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Wheat procurement target lacirated
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In this current season, despite a drastic cut in its wheat procurement target, Punjab doesn’t see any shortages in grain anytime soon.

The provincial food department has fixed 3.5 million tonnes as the procurement target for 2020-21 against 4.5m tonnes of the last year. The food department will announce procurement centers on March 25 while the provision of gunny bags is likely to start from April 1.

“We’re going to harvest 19.8m tonnes wheat this year, whereas as of today one million tonnes plus stock is available with the food department. So there are no worries about the grain shortage this year, especially when the federal government has decided to keep open the import option,”

“After extracting the expected wheat releases to flour mills up till the arrival of the new crop as well as the stock for the Ramazan package, the province will be having a carryover stock of over 200,000 tonnes by the time fresh grain hits the market,”

Pointing out that the procurement target has been cut on the direction of federal authorities, he defends the decision by saying that the government will need not go for early releases like in the last year when it had to issue wheat to the mills from official storages in July against the past practice of issuing this in late September or in October. Moreover, only licenced private sector parties, including flour mills and seed companies, will be allowed to enter the market after declaring their stocks.

“The mills will have to disclose their daily grinding quantity while the seed businesses will enlist the growers the companies are procuring grain for seed purposes from. No third party other than these will be allowed to make the purchases until and unless we’ve achieved our procurement target.”

The provincial authorities have, however, heaved a sigh of relief on the announcement of Rs1,800 per maund (40kg) support price of wheat by the federal government.

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