LAHORE: A severe shortage of flour has arisen in Lahore and a 20-kg bag has reached Rs 1,500 in the open market.
In Lahore, sugar is also being sold at more than Rs 100 per kg. When the price of wheat reached Rs. 2450 per quintal in the open market, the flour mills stopped the supply of flour.
A 20 kg bag of flour at Rs. 880 is being sold at Rs. 1,500 in the market and sugar is being sold at Rs. 105 instead of Rs. 70 per kg. The citizens Irfan Ahmed and Mohammad Ali said that flour is nowhere to be found and even if it is available, a lot of money is demanded.
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Similarly, sugar has become extinct and where it is available, the price is high. In this regard, the shopkeepers said that only when the supply is better will we be able to provide goods to the people.
A trader named Farid Ahmed said that we are compelled not to supply flour mills and the price of sugar is also high. The owners’ association, which has justified the rising prices of wheat, has also increased the price of flour from Rs 80 to Rs 85 per kg.
