LAHORE, May 23: The Punjab claimed on Friday to have achieved its revised targets of 2.5 million ton of wheat required for food security in the province.

According to the food department officials, they had procured 2.3 million ton by Thursday with 200,000 ton in their stocks in the beginning of the season.

However, their daily procurement had dropped down to 19,000 ton a day by Friday because of increasing price in the open market.

The officials said the department would stay in the market as long as farmers would sell their wheat, though it would not be much use because the farmers had been selling their crop to other buyers.

They admitted that the crop they had got this year was not as big as the provincial agriculture planners had initially thought. — Staff Reporter