According to Chairman of the Kisan Ittehad Khalid Khokhar, thousands of farmers, including women and children, will gather outside the Multan Press Club to demonstrate. Khokhar expressed frustration, stating that farmers had planted wheat based on the advice of Maryam Nawaz, and now they are awaiting a fair price for their crop. The warning came […]
As per details, farmers can now transport wheat across provincial borders without restrictions, enabling them to sell their produce in the most profitable markets. For the first time, the private sector will be allowed to procure wheat, providing farmers with more options to sell their produce and potentially leading to better prices. Moreover, the deregulation […]
According to a notification issued by Commissioner Karachi Syed Hassan Naqvi, the wholesale market price of fine wheat flour has been fixed at Rs 92 per kilogram (kg) while its ex-flour mill price is set at Rs 92 per kg. The fine wheat flour will be available at Rs 99 per kg in the retail […]
The government had fixed the wheat purchasing rate and was supposed to issue wheat bags directly to farmers, but some food department officials are allegedly selling these bags to small-scale traders (phi) in exchange for kickbacks. As a result, phi-walls are purchasing wheat from growers at lower rates than the government’s prescribed rate of PKR […]
