Jalal Khan, a progressive farmer, who achieved bumper wheat crop this season seemed upset after hearing news on print and social media about looming wheat prices crisis and started visiting different bazaars to know about actual prices of the commodity as well as makeshift godwons for its storage to avert possible financial loss this season.
“I came to Firdus wheat storage market to know about prices of wheat which was very low this season compared to last year in KP and the only viable option left with me these days to purchase five makeshift wheat godwons to store my 100 KG surplus wheat, hoping to sell it once prices of the commodity soar in open market,” said Nowshera born graduate farmer Jalal wearing in traditional turban.
“The farmers of KP require prices of wheat to be well in excess of Rs 4,000 per 40 kilograms bag to make a reasonable profit. However, the local and international prices were recently recorded as low as Rs 2,500 per bag meaning by Rs 1500 loss to wheat growers per 40 kilogram.
