Flour mills to get 700 M.ton wheat quota per week in Multan.

MULTAN -- District government has fixed 700 Metric ton wheat quota for per week supply to functional flour mills in Multan district to ensure availability of wheat flour (Atta) to people at fixed price.

The decision was taken in the light of instructions issued by food department, Punjab government, fixing ex-mill and retail price of Atta produced from government supplied wheat stocks besides other guidelines.

Deputy commissioner Amir Khatak said that the initiative would ensure availability of 10-kgs Atta bag to the people at Rs 430 per bag while 20kgs atta at Rs 860 per bag in the open market.

Flour mills have been held bound to supply 10kgs Atta bags to dealers at Rs 419 per bag and 20kg bag at Rs 837 per bag.

Food department also asked flour mills to ensure extraction ratio of wheat flour at 65:22:13 (flour, fine, bran).

DC said that wheat quota would be supplied only to functional flour mills and mills would be bound to supply Atta to the open market. Those failing to supply...

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