KARACHI – Sindh Food Minister Nadir Magsi has urged the Federal government to either discontinue the supply of wheat flour (Atta) from Punjab to Sindh, province or allow the Sindh government to export its wheat abroad. The Sindh government has around 900,000 metric tones wheat in its warehouses, Magsi said at the Sindh Assembly (SA) session on Thursday, arguing that this needed to be sold at the earliest for fear of the food supplies frittering away “Sindh is unable to sell its wheat due to non-stop supply of wheat flour from Punjab. We will have no money to procure wheat for the next season if the available stock is not sold,
” he said. Rejecting the suggestion of an opposition member that the government was not providing wheat flour to flood-affected people, Magsi said that there was surplus wheat flour despite sufficient quantities having been provided to the flood survivors. He added that the Sindh government is also providing free of cost seed in flood-affected areas. “The price of wheat is forwarded and suggested by the Federal government, and the minimum price for next year has been planned as Rs975 per 40kg – the same as last year.
