Agri Forum Pakistan Chairman Muhammad Ibrahim Mughal has estimated that flour millers are earning 42 per cent profit by buying wheat at Rs 24 per kilogram and selling flour at Rs 34 per kilogram. ‘Atta Chakki owners are selling flour at Rs 34 per kilogram whereas flour millers are selling flour at Rs 29 per kilogram but after extracting fine, semolina and other expensive ingredients,’ he claimed while addressing an association of the flour consumers here on Thursday. Agri Forum Pakistan Chairman stated that consumers from Lahore only paying Rs 600 million as profit to flour sellers while consumers from big cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, Gujranwala, Faisalabad and others were paying Rs 20 to 25 billion per annum as profit to flour millers. He further stated that wheat growers were selling wheat to the millers at Rs 21 per kilogram and according to an estimate two million tons of wheat was available with the flour millers.
