Pakistan Wheat Price Pakistan's Punjab may soon face wheat shortage
Lahore: Pakistan's Punjab Flour Mills Association Chairman Asim Raza has warned that the region may soon witness shortage of the commodity as its stocks in the private sector were depleting fast.
“Only a few days' wheat stock is left in the private sector. Wheat should be released immediately and distributed evenly,” he was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune while addressing a news conference in Lahore.
Raza told the newspaper the price of wheat had crossed Rs2,150 per maund while the rate of a 20-kilogramme bag of flour reached Rs1,200 from Rs1,150.
He said the price of wheat in Lahore was Rs2,210 per maund while that of a 20kg bag was Rs1,180. In Islamabad, the price of wheat is Rs2,230 per maund, he noted.
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