Karachi
Sindh Minister for Food and Minorities Affairs Hari Ram Kishori Lal while repudiating the report that the wheat stock had plummeted in Sindh province made it clear that there was sufficient stock of wheat available in the province. He said that considering the needs of the domestic consumers the Food Department of Sindh had requested federal government to provide further 400,000 metric tons of wheat. Hari Ram Kishori Lal said that the federal government’s economic committee initially had approved to furnish 100,000 metric tons of wheat to Sindh. The Food Minister said that the Sindh cabinet would soon announce the official wheat price policy for the crop 2019 – 20 and following that the Food Department would start selling the wheat to the flour mills owners in accordance with the decided official rate.
