{"id":149326,"date":"2020-03-12T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=149326"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:38:41","slug":"ecc-fixes-minimum-support-price-for-wheat-at-rs-1400-per-40kg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2020\/03\/ecc-fixes-minimum-support-price-for-wheat-at-rs-1400-per-40kg\/","title":{"rendered":"ECC fixes minimum support price for wheat at Rs 1,400 per 40kg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-149326-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ECC-Meeting.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ECC-Meeting.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ECC-Meeting.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Mar 12 (APP): Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Thursday fixed the minimum support price of wheat at Rs 1,400 per 40 kg to ensure parity in wheat prices throughout the country and set up a high-level Wheat Procurement Monitoring Group to ensure a smooth procurement of wheat by the public sector departments in the upcoming harvest season.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the ECC in its meeting held on 19th\u00a0February 2020 had decided to fix the minimum support price of wheat crop 2019-20 at the level of Rs 1,365 per 40 kg. However, a meeting of Wheat Review Committee convened on 9th\u00a0Mach 2020 under the chairmanship of National Food Security &amp; Research Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar and attended by the Food Ministers of KP, GB and AJK and secretaries of Food Departments of various provinces had recommended enhancement of support price of wheat for wheat crop 2019-20 from Rs 1365 per 40 kg to the level of Rs 1400 per 40 kg.<\/p>\n<p>The ECC meeting held at the Cabinet Block with Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in the chair today, discussed the support price for wheat in detail and decided to fix the price of wheat at Rs 1,400 per 40 kg to ensure parity in wheat prices throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ECC also approved the Annual Report of Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) for the Financial Years ended 2015, 2016 &amp; 2017, and asked the CCP to give a detailed presentation to ECC in the next meeting on the overall scope of its work and what had been achieved by the Commission so far with regard to its mandated role to ensure fair competition in different sectors of economy it governed.<\/p>\n<p>APP\/ Saeeda\u00a0\/reha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Mar 12 (APP): Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Thursday fixed the minimum support price of wheat at Rs 1,400 per 40 kg to ensure parity in wheat prices throughout the country and set up a high-level Wheat Procurement Monitoring Group to ensure a smooth procurement of wheat by the public sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ECC-Meeting.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-264-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149329,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149326\/revisions\/149329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}