Karachi faces renewed concerns as wheat reserves deplete

KARACHI:

Karachi is facing renewed concerns over a potential flour crisis as wheat reserves in the city’s flour mills have significantly depleted. Chaudhry Amir Abdullah, Chairman of the Flour Mills Association, informed The Express Tribune that most of the flour mills in Karachi currently have only a two-day wheat stock due to the Sindh government’s failure to honour a written agreement with the Flour Mills Association.

According to Abdullah, an agreement was reached with the Sindh Food Department stating that the ban on transporting wheat from within Sindh to Karachi would be lifted after May 15. Regrettably, the ban on wheat transportation to Karachi remains in place, resulting in residents being compelled to purchase the most expensive flour in the country.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 21^st, 2023.