Purchasing wheat: ‘Punjab govt bought 600,000 tons’

SIALKOT: Punjab Food Minister Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor stated that the provincial government had purchased 600,000 tons of wheat from the producers, adding that gunny bags have been issued in order to purchase another 1,600,000 tons.

He said initially the provincial government had set a target to purchase 3.5 million tons of wheat, however due to this year’s bumper crop, the target had been revised to 4 million tons.

He said Punjab will get 13.5 million tons of wheat this year out of which 2.5 million tons will be exported.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 7^th, 2011.