{"id":3488,"date":"2023-11-03T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:27:52","slug":"govt-assured-full-cooperation-to-the-private-sector-to-ensure-a-steady-supply-of-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=3488","title":{"rendered":"Govt assured full cooperation to the private sector to ensure a steady supply of wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"497\" data-id=\"3489\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20231103_172336-1024x497.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20231103_172336-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20231103_172336-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20231103_172336-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20231103_172336-1536x745.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20231103_172336-2048x994.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD : Federal Ministry of Food Security and Research has made it clear that the country is currently well-stocked with wheat reserves as both the federal and provincial food departments have reported a total stock of 6.934 million tons of wheat.<br>In a statement issued, the federal ministry informed that<br>PASSCO&#8217;s has stock 1.78 million tons, Punjab has 4.021 million tons, Sindh has 0.817 million tons, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has 0.227 million tons, and Balochistan has 0.089 million tons.<br>These reserves are sufficient for the country&#8217;s essential needs until May 2024 when the new crop harvest begins.<br>The private sector has initiated wheat procurement due to their confidence in the federal government&#8217;s support. Currently, more than 700,000 tons of wheat have been procured within the country, with expectations of an additional 1.2 million tons to be procured.<br>The federal government has assured full cooperation to the private sector to ensure a steady supply of wheat until the arrival of the new crop.<br>The supply and price situation for wheat has improved, with no shortage in any part of the country.<br>Wheat prices, which were previously at 4,800 Pakistani Rupees per maund a month ago, have now decreased to 4,300-4,400 Pakistani Rupees per maund.<br>The possibility of further price reductions is also present, which is expected to alleviate the common man&#8217;s financial burdens and improve their purchasing power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : Federal Ministry of Food Security and Research has made it clear that the country is currently well-stocked with wheat reserves as both the federal and provincial food departments&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}