Pakistan Flour Mills Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (PFMA-KP) has demanded of the provincial government to ensure supply of wheat to flour mills as per their quota to fulfill the requirement of commodity in the province. The demand was made by PFMA KP chairman, Hajji Mohammad Tariq while chairing an executive body meeting of the association here on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by PFMA Central chairman, Naeem Butt, along with flour millers. The meeting discussed that the current situation of wheat in the province.
Naeem Butt while addressing on the occasion criticized that the incumbent KP Minister for Food, Qalandar Lodhi in his statements, claimed that the corruption had been eliminated and the provincial food department is self-sufficient in wheat, but the situation is completely against it.
PFMA central chairman said that it doesn't make different to become self-sufficient by supplying less wheat to flour mills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He added that many flour mills had closed down due to non-provision of wheat as per their fixed quota. He said that the subsidy money on wheat is being misused, which inflicted huge financial losses to provincial exchequer.
The meeting has urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan to ensure supply of wheat to flour mills as per their quota. It feared that the all flour mills of KP will be shut down, if the situation was persisted. The meeting further said that flour millers are being faced huge financial losses in the current circumstances.
On the occasion, the PFMA KP chairman, Hajji Mohammad Tariq has urged the provincial food department to immediate supply wheat to flour mills as per quota. He said the flour mills in Swat and Malakand are already being faced crisis due to less supply of wheat to them. He said that flour millers were compelled to procure wheat from Punjab.
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