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Flour price goes down
SANGHAR, March 31: Flour price has begun to come
down after arrival of the new wheat crop in the
market as flour was being sold for Rs12 to Rs13
per kilogramme in the district on Tuesday.
Wheat traders and flour mill owners are purchasing
wheat at the rate of Rs350 to Rs360 per 40kg. Many
farmers complained that the traders were deducting
two kilogrammes from a 100kg bag of wheat on the
pretext of dust.
Wheat harvest is going in full swing in the
district and the food department has also started
wheat procurement. It has set up 52 wheat
procurement centres in the district to achieve a
target of procuring 800,000 wheat bags in the
current season. The district food controller told
journalists that so far 30,000 wheat bags of 100kg
had been purchased.
This time, the food department is lifting wheat
from farms and transport charges are also borne by
it. Hundreds of wheat threshers have arrived from
upper Sindh and are charging Rs16 to Rs18 for
threshing 40kg of wheat.
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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