Facilitating Farmers: 230 wheat procurement centres set up

The centres were established in order to initiate the wheat procurement campaign for the crop season

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ISLAMABAD:
The Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) has established about 230 wheat procurement centres across wheat growing areas in country in order to facilitate grain producers to sell their produces at official fixed rates. The centres were established in order to initiate the wheat procurement campaign for the crop season 2018-19, besides facilitating the farmers, protecting them from the exploitation of middle men and providing better prices of their produces, said PASSCO Managing Director Muhammad Khan Khichi. Talking to APP on Wednesday, he said that in this regard the whole country was divided into zones for enhancing the outreach of the corporation and facilitating the growers across the crop producing areas of provinces.


Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2018.

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