Farmers’ anxiety
WHEAT prices in Punjab have plummeted far below the minimum support price owing to a bumper harvest, reckless imports, large carryover stocks being held by the food department, and a collapsing international grain market. While a record wheat crop is a matter of comfort for the province’s new political leadership, the crashing prices must worry farmers. Various farmer organisations have already demanded immediate government intervention to stabilise the market. The rates being offered by flour mill owners and stockists for the new crop........
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