Tag: Wheat

ECC meeting: Wheat support price and sugar export allowance increased

Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet met on Thursday following which the support price of wheat for the next crop was increased to...

Iran to buy Pakistan wheat on barter

Iran will buy wheat from Pakistan in exchange of fertilizer and pig iron, as an agreement for the purchase of one lac tonnes of...

Sorry brother Pakistan, your wheat’s bad quality: Iran

While citing reservations over Pakistani’s wheat quality, Iran has finally rebuffed to import one million tonnes wheat from Pakistan under a barter trade deal,...

Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to the corruption ‘whitepaper’

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

Punjab Food Secretary wants growers’ issues resolved… and soon

Punjab Food Secretary Irfan Ali has directed all the District Coordination Officers (DCOs) and Director Food Punjab to immediately resolve the issues of those...

Urea for wheat, is oh so neat

Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar has directed the public sector grain storage organization Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Supply Corporation (PASSCO) to...

Pakistan, Iran wheat talks deadlocked

Pakistan and Iran have hit deadlock in talks about a barter deal for Pakistani wheat to get round Western sanctions because Tehran is offering...

KBP for review of wheat procurement policy

The Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) has urged the government to review the wheat procurement policy to provide relief to the farming community. KBP President Sardar...

PASSCO’s wheat procurement drive from May 1

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

Wheating the appetite of farmers, industrialists

As expected, the government approved a massive financial guarantee of over Rs 200 billion for procuring 7.7 million tons of wheat from influential growers,...

Government okays wheat barter deal with Iran

Government has decided to export a million tonnes of wheat to Iran in a barter deal, an official in Islamabad said on Monday, as...

Governor upbeat about Iranian wheat deal

Punjab Governor Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa said that despite international pressure the present government negotiated a historic deal of exporting wheat to Iran....

Wheat quota of Gujranwala div abolished

Secretary Food Punjab Irfan Ali has said the wheat quota of Gujranwala division has been abolished and now anyone can purchase wheat directly from...

Punjab govt issues wheat sale notification

Secretary Food Punjab Irfan Ali has said that in order to provide flour to the masses at cheaper rates and stabilise its prices in...

‘Wheat support price should go down’

Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) warned the federal government on Monday that if the Rs 100 per maund increase in the wheat support price...

Roti, naans might become dear

Wheat flour prices are likely to increase by Rs47 per 20-kilogram bag as Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has approached the Punjab Food Department...

Country’s wheat uncompetitive in international market

While export of wheat has already been halted, despite huge stocks in the country, due to stiff competition outside the country, fresh increase in...