{"id":115473,"date":"2026-06-15T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=115473"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:01:45","slug":"punjab-govt-introduces-new-system-for-purchasing-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/punjab-govt-introduces-new-system-for-purchasing-wheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt introduces new system for purchasing wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to introduce a new system for determining the market price and purchasing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/ministry-of-food-security-decides-to-supply-wheat-to-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/\">wheat<\/a>, which aims to end government raids and round-ups in the open market.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Food Department, consideration is being given to including aggregators and electronic warehouse receipt systems under the new system.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab government has decided to make a major change in the current system for purchasing and determining the price of wheat.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Food Department, a new model is being developed under which the average price of wheat in the market will be used as the basis for purchasing.<\/p>\n<p>Under this system, the average price of the last 3 months by the Federal Bureau of Statistics or the Provincial Price Council will be considered as the purchasing price.<\/p>\n<p>The government will purchase wheat by giving a fixed profit to private traders and stockists, which will later be provided to flour mills.<\/p>\n<p>In the proposed system, registration and declaration of wheat will be made mandatory for all stakeholders, including rice shellers, cotton ginning factories, flour mill owners, and middlemen.<\/p>\n<p>The Food Department will have the first right to purchase wheat, while in case of refusal, private owners will be allowed to sell in the open market.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, this new system will not only increase transparency but also improve the storage capacity of wheat in government custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to introduce a new system for determining the market price and purchasing wheat, which aims to end government raids and round-ups in the open market. According to the Food Department, consideration is being given to including aggregators and electronic warehouse receipt systems under the new system. The Punjab government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":44810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[34178],"class_list":["post-115473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115474,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115473\/revisions\/115474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}