Crisis persists despite arrival of new crop

KARACHI - Despite the arrival of new crop, the shortage of wheat is aggravating in the provincial capital as well as in other cities of the country, the flour millers told The Nation on Tuesday.

The representatives of four provincial chapters of Pakistan Flour Mills Association, while talking to The Nation, maintained that if government did not allow them to procure wheat from provinces especially Punjab and Sindh, the wheat crisis would further trigger leading to artificial hike in flour prices.

The prices of wheat are also soaring in the open market, as current price of the commodity was Rs 2350 per 100kg in Punjab and Rs 2100 per 100kg in Sindh on Tuesday.