Re: The crises like never before
The poor wheat producers get much lower price for their hard labour than what is sold on the market. The poor peasants cannot hoard lot of whaet unlike the mill owners. When the crop is harvested the price is always low, i bet same will happen next year. The government ordered that wheat be bought from peasants @ 420Rs per "mun" but it was actually bought by mill owners @ 380Rs. So its not the whaet producers that sell to smugglers but the hoarders and mill owners.
their are huge ineffciencies in food supply chain in pak and govt can rightly be criticised for not bringing an improvement in this segment. otoh, wheat smugglers bribe politicians much like human smugglers do. since country cannot be run without the support of politicians, smuggling of any sort cannot be controlled in countries like pak or afghanistan.