Tag: Procurement

--Negligence causes delay in procurement of PFSA’s under-construction laboratory equipment --78% equipment procured; rest halted due to fluctuation in dollar price LAHORE: Owing to the improper...

As part of revamping its armoured fleet by 2025, Pakistan has decided to procure 600 battle tanks, including T-90 tanks from Russia, besides producing...

A district court in the United States (US) sentenced a Pakistani-origin businessman to three years of probation on charges of procuring material and equipment...

--Citizens suffer as stoppage of procurement by govt renders utility stores dysfunctional --Not a single wheat bag at any outlet LAHORE: Citizens, especially the poor and lower-middle...

--City's waste management company approves bidder despite ambiguous documents --No chance of misappropriation, LWMC spokesperson denies any violation of rules LAHORE: The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) awarded...

LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways on Sunday rejected rumours about its downfall or corruption in the procurement of any product including locomotives. The spokesperson said that it...

KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday identified major irregularities in the Prime Minister Laptop Scheme (PMLS) run under the supervision of Higher...

Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) has started preparing a ‘white paper’ on corruption and irregularities being done by the officials of the provincial departments involved...

Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) have announced to start wheat procurement drive from May 01, 2012 with start of gunny bag distribution...

Trading Corporation of Pakistan on Friday received a lowest bid of Rs46,250 per MT with the highest bid of Rs50,000 per MT for procurement...

Wheat procurement campaign across the country for 2011-12 is now in full swing as provincial food departments and official grains procurement agency PASSCO has...

Wheat procurement campaign is in full swing in district Hafizabad while 1.4 million 100-kg bags will be purchased during this drive at the supporting...

There is no discipline at wheat procurement centres in Wazirabad and wheat bags are not given to the farmers of this area. The farmers...

Lahore - Wheat procurement campaign, to procure 4.7 million tonnes this year, has started all across Punjab. "Food Department of Punjab would procure 3.5 million tonnes of wheat, while the Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) would acquire 1.26 million tonnes of the commodity during the current season," Wheat Development Commissioner in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MinFA) Dr Shakeel Ahmad Khan said. Total wheat procurement target for the year 2010-11

KARACHI - The Sindh government has procured 19,744 metric tonnes (MT) of wheat by the 7th of this month from 15 districts against its target of 1.3 million MT for the year 2010-11 - an indication that the province could be headed towards a wheat shortage crisis. The procurement process in the province had started on March 25.
According to details, the government has acquired 5,456MT wheat from the Hyderabad region against the target of 265,000MT. This includes 3,666MT from

LAHORE - The Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Mir Israrullah Zehri has said that transparency and just mechanism will be ensured, while complete arrangements have been made to protect rights of small farmers during the wheat procurement drive 2011.
He made these remarks at Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) head office after an official briefing here on Saturday. He said that PASSCO would procure 1.3 million tonnes of wheat from the current

LAHORE - The Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) is all set to launch 'Wheat Procurement Campaign 2011' from the last week of April. The corporation has fixed a wheat procurement target of 1.3 million tonnes out of the national wheat procurement target of 6.5 million tonnes set by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MINFA). PASSCO Managing Director Major General Sohail Shafqat unveiled the wheat procurement programme while addressing members of the