• Price control secretary said, geotagging, proactive planning of wheat stock verification decisions; defending fate to ensure adequate supply
• Factory banned from using wheat to make poultry feed
Lahore: The Punjab government has taken measures, including geo-marking of stocks, to avoid the potential wheat crisis in the province, after floods in the East River flushed farmland and destroyed stocks in the middle areas.
This move is limit Regarding the inter-provincial movement of commodities at the provincial government, the provincial government’s price in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rose by 68%, which also sparked protests in Sindh and KP.
Sources told dawn The decision to limit wheat trade was to make the province’s cereals adequate and avoid imminent crises. In addition to this measure, price control and commodity management in Punjab also decided to begin geographic works and physical verification of wheat stocks in warehouses across the province.
Its secretary, Dr Kiran Khurshid, informed an April department monitoring committee led by Deputy Minister Shazia Rehman, which cooperated with the Punjab Law Enforcement and Regulatory Agency (PERA) and the Food Bureau to collect data from all regions. By this practice, wheat stocks stored in government and private warehouses will be registered to deal with the food crisis feared after the flood.
Dr. Kurshid said her department will implement government policies to avoid unpredictable and unforeseen crises after the smooth crisis. She said people lost large amounts of wheat stocks in recent floods and now the government has a responsibility to take care of citizens.
She said the price control and commodity sector is digging wheat warehouses to gather information about actual stocks and resources for predictive analytics and anticipated plans.
“Geographical sites are just an intervention, not a solution,” she said, adding that it takes time to track wheat.
She said the department has established a Strategic Management Department (SWM) to digitize the assets, resources and activities of the eight bureaus of the department. “All dispersed information will be provided in one dashboard for departments and senior authorities to monitor and make informed decisions,” she said.
The Punjab Department of Family Affairs also imposed Article 144 at the request of the price control department and prohibited factories in the province from using 10,184 metric wheat flavors for feed chewing.
Outside the province
Sources said the provincial government is strictly inspecting the wheat movement at the province’s export points. They claimed that Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz made it clear that her most important role was to avoid the food crisis in the province and to ensure that citizens gain proper direction through government packages or other means.
She was also quoted as saying that about 4 million people were affected by the flood and needed administrative machinery needed to carry out the wheat availability of flood survivors.
Price Control Secretary Dr Khurshid also said that Punjab is monitoring the wheat movements on Sindh and KP borders because “merchants always want to sell their goods and get better prices here”.
In this case, the government’s role is to ensure that the province’s wheat stocks meet the needs of its people. If the government allows the government to transfer it to other provinces at a lower price, then purchase other provinces at a higher cost. It may be mentioned that the government did not buy wheat and that there were no mean stocks in the government warehouse.
At the same time, the arrest department obtained 107 profits, fined 7 people 12,043 profits, and registered the case. Amid over-purification of wheat flour prices, department officials arrested 18 officials, registered cases against four people and fined 1,074 people. In the crackdown on holocausts, the department has restored 334,000 metric tons of wheat across the province.
This month alone, these measures helped increase wheat stocks at flour mills to 165,000 metric tons.
In addition, grinding of 360,000 metric tons of wheat ensures a stable supply of flour and reduces the price of wheat from Rs 3,800 to Rs 30 crore per 40 kg.
Posted at Dawn on September 21, 2025
