Craving for chocolates? Or is it pudding? A new study reveals how sugar can aid in making a person dumb. Beware. The trinkets fascinate many people. What is most sweet. Sugary sodas make us hopping for joy. But only that abusemos of them for 6 weeks straight, then we will become more stupid: our brains […]
Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet has decided to purchase 378,000 tons of sugar for the strategic reserve this year. The decision was taken after the reduction bid prices for sugar by the sugar mills this season, quoting just Rs. 17 per kg. The ECC meeting was presided by the Finance Minister of Pakistan, […]
Jan 4 2012 | Posted in
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Rabi crop – Economic Coordination Committee approves import of 200,000 tons of urea Islamabad, December 12: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet in a meeting today decided to allow the import of 200,000 tons of urea for the Rabi crops of year 2011-12. The committee, headed by Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh – the […]
Retailers not carving up the price relief with customers Despite of fall in the prices of pulses and sugar in the local whole sale market (Dandia Bazaar) in Karachi, the retailers are not willing to pass on the relief to the consumers. A persistent decline in the sugar prices has been observed in the sugar […]
Dec 7 2011 | Posted in
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Delight of sugarcane growers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) over the bumper crop this season was tarnished by the support prices announced by the Sugar Control Board recently. The farmers have rejected the Rs. 25 increase per 40kg in the support prices this year, reaching Rs. 150 from Rs. 125 per 40kg last season. The growers […]
Nov 29 2011 | Posted in
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