Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) NWFP chapter has called for end to disparity in the price of wheat between NWFP and Punjab, saying the difference of the commodity prices in the provinces was badly affecting the flour milling industry. The demand was made during executive committee meeting of the association held here with chairman, Mohammad Akbar Khan advocate in the chair.
Those who attended included Mohammad Sadiq, Naeem Butt, Malik Iftikhar, Khurram Suleman, Mussarat Shah, Dr Syed Shahid Abbas, Haji Sartaj Khan and Mohammad Tariq. The meeting was of the view that prevailing ban on the inter-provincial and inter-district movement of wheat will result in closure of flourmills in the province.
They called for immediate lifting of the ban. The meeting also reviewed the negative impact of the import of wheat from Ukraine and termed it a conspiracy against the flour milling industry of NWFP to defame them. The meeting called for stoppage of the supply of substandard wheat to save the flour milling industry of the province from further destruction.
The mill owners said that bread could not be baked from the substandard wheat. Moreover, they said that this flour also lacks demand in the local market and affecting both flour millers and atta dealers financially. The participants of the meeting, while protesting over the wheat policy of the government of Punjab, warned of chalking effective strategy over the issue. They will have no option other than taking extreme steps.
Addressing the meeting, chairman PFMA NWFP Mohammad Akbar Khan advocate vowed action against elements responsible for the destruction of flourmill industry which is on the verge of collapse. He also severely criticised the policies of the department of food and said that in case of the initiation of crackdown against the flourmills will end up in the handing over of the flourmills to the government.
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