Punjab Minister for Food, Hussain Jehanian Gardezi has said that wheat procurement process is going on smoothly in the province and the directorate of food has procured 1.3 million tons of wheat till date. Talking to journalists here on Tuesday, he also dispelled the impression of any instability in the prices.
He said that for the last five days, directorate of food was procuring 100,000 tons of wheat daily and hoped that the trend would continue. He stated that the department had gunny bags sufficient for 1.7 million tons of wheat at the start of the procurement drive, while till now it had distributed gunny bags for 2.2 million tons and in all it had gunny bags sufficient for 3 million tons of wheat.
While tenders for purchase of further gunny bags has also recently been floated, he added. Regarding problems being faced by the farmers in wheat procurement drive, he assured for taking strict action provided details are provided to him.
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