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Bumper crop ensures wheat target
LAHORE (April 29
2004): Punjab Food secretary, Raja Shahid Hussain
claimed that 3.5 million tons wheat procurement
target for 2003-04 would easily be achieved due to
bumper crop and incentives to the farmers despite
free market.
"The government was offering Rs 350 per 40
kilogram to the growers", Hussain said believing
that the private sector buyers would not be able
to create dent in the government's wheat
procurement drive by offering a little more money
than that of the government.
The secretary warned that the growers, while
selling their wheat at a commission agent shop,
would have to pay 2.5 per cent or more in
commission besides paying "Chungi" and giving
around one-kg per bag extra grain in "Thalla."
This, he said, would neutralise the extra
earnings, if any, of the growers due to the price
difference. The direct supply to the millers had
its own "adverse consequences," he further
cautioned.
Talking to newsman, he said the food department
had arranged sufficient quantity of bags this
year, revealing that 100-Kg gunny bags would be
supplied for packing of 2.7 million tons wheat,
while 50-Kg polythene bags would be provided for
remaining 0.8 million tons of the wheat.
Hussain said that the farmer, who would bring 100
bags of the wheat to a government centre, would
get cash payment on-the-spot, while the grower
would bring grain beyond the said quantity, would
get the payment through cheque.
The government, the food secretary said, had set
up a total number of 305 wheat procurement centres
in the 34 districts of the province. In
high-wheat-producing areas like Bahawalpur and
Multan divisions, the centres had been set up even
in the vicinity of 10 kilometres, he added.
Courtesy Business Recorder
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