Minister for ensuring stable sugar prices

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Industries and Production Rana Tanveer Hussain on Tuesday directed the chief secretaries to take all possible measures to ensure stable retail prices of sugar across the country.
The minister chaired the Sugar Advisory Board meeting to review the availability of sugar stocks and price trends. The minister said that ex-mills prices of sugar have remained stable in recent months. He directed the provinces to strictly monitor retail sugar prices, as maintaining sugar prices was the primary responsibility of the government. –Agencies