ISLAMABAD: Minister for Food Security Syed Fakhar Imam Friday informed the National Assembly concerning baffling vanishing of wheat from the administration stocks saying that 0.7 million ton wheat would be imported to meet the deficiency.
“We have obtained record 6,000,000 ton wheat, yet it is a secret with regards to where it has gone,” he said while wrapping up banter on the horticulture division. Fakhar likewise brought up that wheat in Punjab was accessible at Rs1,700 to Rs1,800 per 40 kilogram, though the rancher was paid Rs1,400.
“One of explanations behind the wheat issue might be increment in the cost of wheat on the universal market,” he said. Speaker Asad Qaiser decided that the prohibition on between commonplace wheat development was an unlawful demonstration and guided the legislature to present an exhaustive report to the House in such manner. “On the off chance that adequate loads of wheat were accessible, at that point where have they gone?” he inquired.
Fakhar called for arrangement of assets to the agrarian foundations seeing that the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) and National Agriculture Research Council (NARC) could assume a main job in this association
