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- July 13, 2024
- Kainat Shakeel
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Cooperation (PASSCO) will be privatized, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gave the relevant agencies until Friday to create an action plan. The prime minister gave the order to restructure the Wheat Board while presiding over a meeting to examine issues about PASSCO, the Ministry of National Food Security and Research.
He stated that PASSCO, the Land Information Management System, and farmers’ representatives should be on the reorganized Wheat Board. The prime minister urged the adoption of practical steps to increase wheat and other agricultural yields.
In addition to consulting with the provincial governments, the governments of Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and pertinent departments, he ordered the necessary authorities to develop a different plan for the federal government’s procurement of wheat.
The meeting attendees received an update on the Wheat Board’s rules of conduct and organizational reorganization, as well as information on PASSCO changes and crop production enhancements. The meeting was attended by prominent authorities who were pertinent, including PM’s Coordinator Rana Ehsan Afzal, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Jahanzeb Khan, Ahad Khan Cheema, Muhammad Aurangzeb, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Attaullah Tarar, and Ali Pervaiz Malik.