The Sindh Food Department has taken realize of reported injury to wheat shares on the executive warehouses because of the monsoon rains whilst directing the involved government to safe the remainder shares on a conflict footing.

According to media stories, just about 1,000,000 sacksful of wheat used to be stocked out of doors the federal government warehouses in several towns of Sindh within the monsoon season. Knowing that it used to be perishable commodity, the shares weren’t shifted to lined warehouses.

The massive amount of wheat procured by means of the federal government used to be stocked below the open skies out of doors the warehouses in Jamshoro, Dadu, Larkana, Kashmore, Shahdad Kot, Khairpur and different districts, consistent with resources within the meals division.

This has value an unparalleled loss to the nationwide exchequer, they mentioned. As many as 80,000 sacksful of wheat had been stocked out of doors 3 warehouses in Jamshoro that have now not been secured as but.

Taking realize of this, the Sindh Food Department, at the directions of the meals minister, has directed the Deputy Directors Food and District Food Controllers throughout Sindh to save lots of the remainder wheat luggage.

They had been directed to make each imaginable effort on a conflict footing to save lots of the susceptible wheat shares from additional injury and tackle hire non-public warehouses for this function. They had been warned that during case of additional injury to the wheat shares, the involved Deputy Director Food and the District Food Controller will likely be held accountable.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 19^th, 2022.