Lahore:
The most populous wheat market in the country has crashed on Friday after the arrival of Sindh wheat, where the basic food is raised earlier than Punjab.
This year, the culture of the Sindh, which normally arrives on the market in mid-March, was delayed for about fifteen and has just started to arrive on the market.
Forty kilograms of wheat were sold at Punjab at RS2 865. However, now that the market has received new supplies, the price of 40 kg of wheat has decreased from RS400 to Rs2 460.
The wheat cultivated in Punjab should arrive soon on the markets, resulting in an additional reduction in the price of wheat to approximately RS2,300 to Rs2,200 by 40 kg.
In Punjab, the wheat harvest season generally occurs at the end of spring / early summer, winter wheat being collected from the end of May to early June and spring wheat from August to September.
Wheat is considered a stable food in Pakistan where a large majority of people consume bread – Roti and Naan – made wheat flour.
The wheat harvest of this season can face delays due to the month of fasting and the prolonged fresh time, affecting the yield already compromised. Experts describe the state of harvest as “satisfactory but not healthy”. All delay, fear the experts, would lead to the ratitude of cereals, to average drafting and, ultimately, to total national production.
“The Punjab food department has been able to release an additional 250,000 tonnes to compensate for the delay of the Sindh and respond to the demand of its southern part, which is normally fed on the Sindh in March,” explains Majid Abdullah – a Lahore miller -.
This arrival was delayed due to the arrival of Eidul Fitr who stopped the activity transported approximately a week. Millers may not feel any pressure for these delays while official chests respond to demand, but the delay in the maturity of cultures would strike the harvest and individual farmers, who would suffer a loss of yield.
