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LAHORE, May 11: Punjab Food Minister Malik Nadeem Kamran has said that 1.8 million metric tons of wheat has been procured in the province besides providing 24 million gunny bags to farmers so far.
He said this in a statement after presiding over a meeting held here on Sunday to review the wheat procurement in the province.
The minister said that 197,534 metric tons of the commodity had been procured from Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura and Okara; 323,266 metric tons from Gujranwala, Sialkot and Gujrat; 250,070 metric tons from Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh and Jhang; 110,795 metric tons from Sargodha, Mianwali and Bhakkar; 322,733 metric tons from Multan, Lodhran, Vehari, Sahiwal, Pakpattan and Khanewal;
775 metric tons from Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal; 270,816 metric tons from Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur and Layyah; and 459,436 metric tons from Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan districts.
REVIEWED: The Auqaf Department performance will be reviewed in the light of the guidelines prescribed by the new government.
Punjab Auqaf Minister Haji Ehsanuddin Qureshi said this during a visit to the shrine of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh here on Sunday.
CHANGA MANGA: As many as 1,500 families are rearing silkworms and another 200 are making silk thread in the Changa Manga plantation.
Forest Department officials said this while briefing a 15-member group of the Punjab Planning and developemtn Department internees who visited the plantation on Sunday.
They said that every family earned Rs12,000 per month by selling cocoons produced after rearing two packets of silkworm eggs.
The group also visited the 12-acre mulberry nursery and 17-acre mulberry plantation used for providing leaves for rearing silkworms.
