With the surplus production of wheat at hand, the government of Punjab is planning to export as much as a million tons of wheat, as expressed by the provincial Food Minister Malik Nadim Kamran. The provincial government has constituted a special committee, led by Senator Ishaq Dar, for the assessment of wheat export and for making export arrangements.

Talking to a press conference, the provincial Food Minister told that the government won’t repeat the mistake of exporting wheat without carefully assessing the indigenous need of wheat and then forced to import wheat for domestic consumption. Only the surplus wheat will be exported. This is also important because the last year’s imported wheat was of poor quality.

Currently, the main importers of Pakistan’s wheat include Afghanistan, Iraq, and Egypt while the World Food Program also has submitted their requirements for exporting wheat from Pakistan. It is worth mentioning that the Punjab Food Department has gained notable success in producing 3.6 millions tons of quality wheat this year as against the 1.3 million tons of last year.