Tag: Wheat

Punjab refuses to give surplus wheat to PTI-led KP

    The Punjab government has refused to give wheat to PTI-governed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, despite having a million tonnes of wheat in surplus, Pakistan Today...

No final cost of electricity, no wheat supply to Iran

Non-fixation of cost of electricity and non-communication of this price by the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) to the ministry of food security...

Targets set for wheat, rice production in 2013-14

The government has set the wheat production target at 25.5 million and rice production target at 6.2 million during the current fiscal year 2013-14....

Target for wheat and rice set for 2013-14

The government has set the wheat production target at 25.5 million and rice production target at 6.2 million during the current fiscal year 2013-14. About...

Pakistan faces 2.2 million tonnes of wheat shortage

Pakistan is set to miss its wheat production target by a significant 2.2 million tonnes, the Agri Forum of Pakistan (AFP) said on Wednesday....

Pakistan to suffer 2.2 million ton wheat shortfall

Pakistan is set to miss its wheat production target by a significant 2.2 million tons, the Agri Forum of Pakistan (AFP) said on Wednesday According...

Wheat demand to be 29m ton in 2013

Pakistan will have to feed more than 200 million people in 2015 and wheat demand by the time is expected to be 29.06 million...

100,000 tonnes of wheat for Iran to pay for power

Islamabad has authorised the export of 100,000 tonnes of wheat to Iran in trade not jeopardised by Western sanctions, to settle dues for electricity...

US supports Pakistan’s small farmers: Olsen

US Ambassador Richard Olson on Wednesday reaffirmed the United States (US) government’s long-term support to farming communities in Pakistan. “Since the 1950s, the US has...

Wheat sowing witnesses 1% increase in Sindh

The wheat sowing in Sindh Province was increased by 1 percent as compared to the sowing of the same period last year as...

Pakistan to export wheat to Iran

Pakistan will export some 100,000 tons of wheat to Iran by early February. Reports said Pakistani grain exporter Seatrade Group would ship the grain...

Food Department increases wheat quota of mills to bring down flour...

Sindh Food Department has taken measures to provide wheat flour to the citizens at the fixed rate of Rs 32 per kilogram, a spokesman...

‘Punjab has surplus wheat’

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said that the Punjab government has surplus wheat stock that is sufficient to meet food needs of...

Haulers’ strike risks wheat sowing target as urea supplies halt

The protracted strike of goods transporters has halted the supplies of thousands of tonnes of urea from the fertiliser plants located in this port...

Raja Riaz hails wheat support price

Opposition leader Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz Ahmad has welcomed the decision of Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to increase wheat support price.Talking to APP here...

Pakistan likely to start wheat export to Iran by year end

Pakistan is expected to start exporting wheat to Iran under an agreement in the month of August this month. The move is said to have...

Wheat growers welcome new support price

Wheat growers have welcomed the government’s new support price of wheat for the year 2012-13 at the rate of Rs. 1200 per 40...