{"id":501218,"date":"2025-09-06T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=501218"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:00:36","slug":"punjab-cuts-off-feed-mills-wheat-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/punjab-cuts-off-feed-mills-wheat-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab cuts off feed mills\u2019 wheat supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lahore<br \/>\nThe Punjab government has decided to enforce the ban of wheat in feed mills for 30 days\u2013till October 3\u2013to increase supply for human consumption. The Punjab home secretary imposed this restriction under Section 144(6) of the Criminal Procedure Code 1898. \u201cThe use of wheat in feed manufacturing by the feed millers in the province of Punjab is prohibited in the larger public interest,\u201d the provincial Home Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman. Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure empowers district administration to issue orders in public interest that may place a ban on an activity for a specific period of time. Such a ban is enforced by the police, who register cases against violations.<br \/>\nPunishment can carry a maximum penalty of six months in prison and\/or fine.<br \/>\nWith Punjab now entering its third week of flooding, thousands of acres of crops have been destroyed and food prices are expected to surge across the country.<br \/>\nAccording to the order issued by the Home Secretary, wheat will only be used in flour mills for the production of flour. The government has taken this step in light of apprehension of a possible shortage of wheat in the province.<br \/>\nFeed mills in Punjab currently house stock of 104,184 metric tons of wheat. According to a report by the secretary of prrice control, feed mills were using wheat for poultry feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore The Punjab government has decided to enforce the ban of wheat in feed mills for 30 days\u2013till October 3\u2013to increase supply for human consumption. The Punjab home secretary imposed this restriction under Section 144(6) of the Criminal Procedure Code 1898. \u201cThe use of wheat in feed manufacturing by the feed millers in the province [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-501218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab cuts off feed mills\u2019 wheat supply<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/punjab-cuts-off-feed-mills-wheat-supply\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab cuts off feed mills\u2019 wheat supply\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore The Punjab government has decided to enforce the ban of wheat in feed mills for 30 days\u2013till October 3\u2013to increase supply for human consumption. 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