LAHORE: Wheat and flour prices broke all records in Punjab.
Sources in the wheat and flour market have revealed that the ongoing crisis in the country is due to miscalculation of imported wheat requirements by the provincial governments and delayed importation of wheat by the federal government.
To end the ongoing crisis in Punjab, without further delay, the daily quota of flour mills will have to be increased from the level of 2 years ago i.e. 24 thousand tons and the pretexts to save 2 lakh tons of wheat for the upcoming Ramadan package will have to be abandoned. Otherwise, the price of private wheat can reach 6 thousand rupees per maund and the price of private flour bag can reach 3 thousand rupees.
The prices of wheat and flour in Punjab have broken all records, the price of private wheat in Punjab has reached Rs 5200 per maund and the price of 15 kg bag of private flour has reached Rs 2100 in Punjab.
The price of a bag of government flour for Peshawar smuggling has increased to Rs 2700. Due to the supply of less wheat to the flour mills by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, there has been an extraordinary increase in the smuggling of wheat flour from Punjab. The difference in price per sack has increased by Rs 7,000.
The inside story of the wheat and flour crisis has come out
Meanwhile, the inside story of the wheat flour crisis has come out according to which the political tussle in the Federation and Punjab has created problems in wheat import, the Food Department of Punjab could not make an accurate estimate of the imported wheat requirements.
According to the sources, Punjab first demanded the supply of 5 lakh tonnes of wheat, then increased it to 10 lakh tonnes, the federal government kept showing verbal consent to 10 lakh tonnes and then refused, the decision to supply 5 lakh tonnes of wheat to Punjab was delayed. went.
Sources said that the official wheat and flour quota and the price also kept changing with the change of government, Usman Buzdar fixed the price of flour at 1100 rupees per bag and the price of wheat at 1950 rupees. Elahi made flour price 1295 and wheat price 2300.
The officials of the food department could not increase the daily wheat quota in time due to wheat shortage, Punjab currently needs 25 thousand tons of wheat quota per day but 21 thousand is being provided.
The price of wheat continues to rise in the open market, mill owners have increased the price of flour to Rs 160 per kg, while the price of a 15 kg private bag of flour in Punjab has increased to Rs 2155.
Due to the shortage of government flour, there has been a huge rush of people at the trucking points, the food department has considered increasing the daily quota to 24 thousand tons.
