SIALKOT:Deputy Commissioner Maisam Abbas on Sunday reviewed the supply and demand
of potatoes, onions and tomatoes at new vegetable and fruit market Aimenabad.
He reviewed this while holding a meeting with a delegation of licensed holder vegetable
and fruit markets commission agents of Sialkot tehsil which met the deputy commissioner
at his office. Additional Deputy Commissioner General (ADCG) Sialkot Ahmad Nawaz
and Secretary Market Committee Malik Muhammad Abdullah were also present on the
occasion.
The Deputy Commissioner directed the commission agents to further increase the
supply of potatoes, onions and tomatoes at the new vegetable and fruit market Aimenabad.
He informed the commission agents that the government had abolished customs duty
on import of onions and tomatoes from Afghanistan.
Commission agents could import large quantities of onions and tomatoes from Afghanistan
to meet the shortage of commodity, he added.