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Procurement of wheat hits snags
SANGHAR, April 24: The
food department may fail to achieve wheat
procurement target of 1.5 million bags in the
district as it has purchased only 150,000 bags
while 90 per cent of the crop has been harvested.
This was revealed by a survey conducted by this
correspondent. A few thousand bags of wheat have
been stored at the main godowns in Tando Adam,
Shahdadpur and Sinjhoro where hundreds of
thousands of wheat bags had been purchased last
year.
The Sindh government, as a last effort, has
imposed section 144, CrPC, banning wheat movement
outside the district of its production, and also
increased its price by Rs15 per 100kg bag.
However, most of the wheat produced in Sanghar
district has been bought by traders who have
shifted it to Karachi and Hyderabad. The general
secretary, Small Growers Association, Hassan
Askari, Mir Nizamani and other farmers alleged
that the food department was just beating about
the bush while most the wheat had been bought by
traders and consequently hoarded by them or
shifted to godowns of flour mills.
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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