Flour mills: Higher wheat supply demanded

Pakistan Flour Mills Association urges govt to enhance release of wheat to ensure smooth supply in open market.

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has urged the government to enhance the release of wheat to the mills in order to ensure a smooth supply of flour at affordable prices in the open market.

At a meeting, vice chairman of PFMA, Khwaja Rehan Anjum said that the Punjab government was creating hurdles in the way of millers and the common man by reducing wheat quota for the mills. He demanded that the flour mills of Rawalpindi and Islamabad should be provided with 34,000 bags of wheat for a smooth supply of flour, adding the government was providing only 17,000 bags. He said that the Food Department intended to cut down the quota to 8,000 bags, which would force the millers to increase the price of a 20kg bag up to Rs595.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2010.