Our Correspondent
Faisalabad
The Food Department teams has seized 10,600 bags of wheat and shifted to the procurement center. According to Deputy Director Food Sardar Saifullah Joyia, the teams set up pickets at different main roads on Wednesday night and seized the wheat being transported illegally through trucks, tractor trollies and rickshaws.
He said that the campaign against illegal transporting and hoarding of wheat would continue in the district. He warned the farmers to avoid this illegal practice otherwise strict action will be taken against them under the law.
Food grain department have confiscated illegal stock of 4000 gunny bags of wheat during a crack down across the district here on Thursday. In line with special directives of Deputy Commissioner Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi, food grain department have sped up action against stockers to meet wheat procurement target.
The District Food Controller (DFC) Ahmed Javed alongwith team of food department conducted a raid and confiscated illegal wheat stock.
