Farmers, according to Baath, are willing to consider other options, like exporting wheat and reselling it domestically. He bemoaned the inconsistent orders he received from the government, citing examples in which farmers were told to grow wheat but the government would not buy it at the prices it had promised.
He asserted that farmers were forced to sell their produce at prices much less than the government’s declared price to intermediaries and owners of flour mills.
The farmer leader stressed the importance of changing the pricing of necessities like bread (roti) to reflect the true cost of millers’ wheat purchase, proposing a drop from Rs16 to Rs10 per maund.
The Pakistan Flour Mills Association’s Central Chairman, Asim Raza, issued a warning about anticipated increases in flour prices becauseincreased costs stemming from middlemen’s control over wheat supply.
