SANGHAR, March 30: Flour price has begun to come down after arrival of the new wheat crop in the market as flour was being sold for Rs12 to Rs13 per kilogramme in the district on Tuesday.

Wheat traders and flour mill owners are purchasing wheat at the rate of Rs350 to Rs360 per 40kg. Many farmers complained that the traders were deducting two kilogrammes from a 100kg bag of wheat on the pretext of dust.

Wheat harvest is going in full swing in the district and the food department has also started wheat procurement. It has set up 52 wheat procurement centres in the district to achieve a target of procuring 800,000 wheat bags in the current season. The district food controller told journalists that so far 30,000 wheat bags of 100kg had been purchased.

This time, the food department is lifting wheat from farms and transport charges are also borne by it. Hundreds of wheat threshers have arrived from upper Sindh and are charging Rs16 to Rs18 for threshing 40kg of wheat.