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CHANDIGARH: The Global Meals Program (WFP) has placed on report its appreciation for the preservation tactics being adopted in Punjab for the garage of wheat. It has additionally made up our minds to ship a group of officers to Punjab to know the method of procurement, trying out and transportation of wheat to Afghanistan in February-March this yr in order that a equivalent SOP can also be followed through WFP.
Punjab Meals, Civil Provides and Client Affairs Minister Lal Chand Kataruchak mentioned that the 5 member group comprising Sandro Banal, Filippo Zunino, Stephanie Heard, Amit Wadhera and Dr Shruti will probably be visiting Amritsar these days to take a primary hand evaluate of ways long run garage of wheat is undertaken in Punjab, with out deterioration in its high quality.
Terming the popularity through WFP as a question of delight, he mentioned that Punjab, the meals bowl of the country, have been feeding the country and now the grain produced in Punjab is feeding folks in a foreign country additionally.
It was once additionally creditable that the Western International locations at the moment are having a look against India to review preservation tactics for foodgrains and it speaks volumes of the development made through the Executive of Punjab in
this regard, he added. Senior officers of the State Executive and FCI will probably be accompanying the group, he mentioned, whilst assuring complete cooperation to the group.
It can be famous that during a separate conversation through the Ministry of Exterior Affairs to the Division of Meals and Public Distribution, Union Executive on April 27, it have been conveyed that “WFP is very happy with the standard of 10,000 MT of wheat equipped through India to Afghanistan as humanitarian help”.
This amount of wheat have been moved from Punjab to Afghanistan by means of land course thru Pakistan. The transported wheat have been saved in PUNGRAIN Metal Silos of fifty,000 MT capability at Mulle Chak Bhagtana-wala Amritsar, built in PPP mode with M/s LT Meals Ltd, which will probably be visited through the WFP group these days.