Tag: Wheat

KP admin places one month ban on export of wheat to...

ISLAMABAD: On directions of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government, the district administration of North Waziristan on Tuesday banned the export of wheat, flour, fine atta, maida and...

Hafeez Sheikh to chair ECC meeting tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet will hold a meeting with the Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on...

CM Buzdar launches crackdown against hoarders

LAHORE: On the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, a crackdown has been conducted against the hoarders of wheat and sugar and...

Pakistan set to gift 40,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) on Friday accorded an approval to gift 40,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan. Finance Minister Asad Umar chaired a...

India’s first shipment of wheat to enter Afghanistan through Iranian port

Officials from the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) said India will send its first cargo of wheat to Afghanistan through Chabahar Port...

ACE to monitor wheat procurement process

Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment has decided to monitor the whole process of wheat procurement, starting from next month, and a comprehensive plan has been chalked...

ECC maintains wheat support price at Rs 1300/40kg 

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Tuesday decided to maintain the Minimum Guaranteed Price (MGP) of wheat at Rs 1300 per...

215 centres set up for distribution of gunnysacks

    The National Assembly resumed its session at the Parliament House on Tuesday with Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in the chair. The House is conducting private...

ECC allows procurement of 7 million tons of wheat

    The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) approved on Monday procurement of 7.05 million tons of wheat by the provinces and PASCO till...

ECC approves wheat support price for 2015-16

  The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Monday approved support price of Rs 1,300 per 40 KG for wheat crop 2015-16. The ECC...

Pakistan donates planeload of wheat to Afghanistan

  On special instructions of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and as a gesture of goodwill and solidarity with brotherly people and the Government of Afghanistan,...

Food imports fall 16% in 1st quarter, 27% in September

The imports of food products into the country decreased by 16.17 per cent during the first quarter of the current fiscal year (2015-16) compared...

Wheat crop starved for rain as dry spell continues

The prolonged dry spell is expected to continue in different parts of the country with no chances of any rain by the end of...

Now foreigners will feed us out of our own pockets

As govt provides 25,000 metric tonnes of wheat to WFP and braces for distribution of ration to IDPs through their ‘foreign partners of choice’,...

What will we eat if not wheat? PML-Q submit motion against...

Punjab Assembly (PA) members belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League - Quaid (PML-Q) submitted an adjournment motion in the assembly’s secretariat against the recent...

Mills to get flour supply from next month: API

The government will start releasing wheat for local flour mills from next month (September) for smooth supply of flour and other by-products as abundant...

About 7.559 million tonnes of wheat stocks available

The government will start releasing wheat for local flour mills from September for smooth supply of flour and other by-products as abundant commodity stocks...