Consumption of wheat and rice in Pakistan grows vigorously. The causes are well-known. (i) population growth, officially estimated at about three percent per year, is very high and, (ii) at low levels of income per head the income elasticities of wheat and rice consumption are still positive~...

In a study of the operation of the wheat market in Pakistan, Cornelisse and Naqvi [1, p. 116] stated that the pre-harvest wheat stock in March 1983 of 2,100,000 tons should provide sufficient protection against a major harvest failure. This conclusion was based on the observation that a stock of...

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The fIrst of two articles on the operation of the wheat market in Pakistan, the present article describes the magnitude and composition of wheat flows between farmers, middlemen and consumers in the Punjab. The flows emanating from the agricultural sector and those moving from various sources of...

This article, the second of two articles in this Review on the operation of the wheat market in Pakistan, 1 describes the various sources from which consumers in the Punjab, Sind and the NWFP obtain wheat and flour. There appear to be considerable differences in the patterns of wheat...