Provincial Food Minister Samiullah Chaudhary has said that all the provinces and federation should fulfill their responsibilities with regard to achieving wheat procurement target.
He said this while presiding over a high-level meeting in order to give final shape to wheat procurement policy at Civil Secretariat in which salient features of wheat procurement policy 2020-21 came under review. Provincial Finance Minister Hashim Jawan Bakht, Agriculture Minister Nauman Ahmed Langrayal, Livestock and Dairy Development Minister Husnain Dareshak, Parliamentary Secretaries & Advisors of Food, Agriculture, Livestock, Additional Chief Secretary and Secretaries of Food and Finance Department also participated in the meeting.
The minister said that the Food Department should initiate the procurement process in those areas where wheat was prepared early in different districts. Food Department should ensure the process of paying timely payments to the farmers through banks, he directed. Food Department should provide complaint centers and toll-free numbers so as to timely redress the grievances of farmers, he added. Deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners, district food controllers and officials of food department will perform their duties for attaining wheat procurement target.
