Tag: Flour

Flour shortage reaches crisis proportions

Shortage of flour in the city has irked residents of Rawalpindi. The price of flour has also increased due to the drop in supply which...

Flour and sugar prices up in Sindh

Flour prices all across Sindh has gradually increased by more than Rs 3 per kg since June, while sugar price has also witnessed increase...

Rs 2.5b subsidy given for cheap flour: CM

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that government has provided a subsidy of Rs 2.5 billion to ensure availability of cheap...

How much should a 20kg flour bag cost?

The Punjab government has constituted a special committee to determine the new price of 20 kilograms flour bag keeping in view the increase in...

Flour millers whine about fuel adjustment surcharge

Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) North Zone has asked the federal government to immediately withdraw Fuel Adjustment Surcharge from electricity bills of the flour...

Increase flour prices at your own risk

Special Assistant to the Punjab Chief Minister, Mansha Ullah Butt has claimed that flour prices are stable in the province and flour millers are...

‘Flour millers on profiteering spree’

Agri Forum Pakistan Chairman Muhammad Ibrahim Mughal has estimated that flour millers are earning 42 per cent profit by buying wheat at Rs 24...

Asking for flour

The bread has gone out of reach of poor masses so much so that even beggars now ask for alms to buy flour. The...

Millers threaten to stop Sasti Roti Scheme supply

The flour millers have again threatened to stop the wheat flour supply for Punjab government’s Sasti Roti Scheme, which has been squeezed to a...

Govt fails to check substandard flour

Sub-standard wheat flour is being sold in the rural areas of Islamabad with impunity, which has forced the locals to demand the administration to...

Flour on subsidised rates… only in Ramazan!

To facilitate masses during the approaching holy month of Ramazan, the Sindh government is likely to announce a relief package worth over Rs 2...

ICT to buy tons of Sugar & Flour for Ramazan

The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has finalised arrangements to purchase 3,000 tons of sugar and more than five hundred thousand bags of flour...

Flour price increases by Rs20 per bag

Increase in electricity tariff and imposition of 0.2 per cent turnover tax has pushed the prices of 20 kg wheat flour bag by Rs20...

Price of 20kg flour bag down by Rs 15

The Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has announced a reduction of Rs 15 in the price of 20-kilogram flour bag from Wednesday (today) to...

Flour mills begin 3-day strike in Sindh

KARACHI - Flour mills across Sindh have gone on a three-day strike against ongoing ban on inter-district movement of wheat in province.
Sindh Floor Mills Association (SFMA) argued that the ban has increased the price of flour by Rs.100 per bag.
On the other hand, the Food Department said that there was no wheat crisis in the province.
The ban, it said, has been imposed to curb smuggling of wheat.