Overview
- Speaking at a World Food Safety Day ceremony Saturday, Chief Minister Mohammad Sohail Afridi announced a target to make Khyber‑Pakhtunkhwa self‑sufficient in food by 2030.
- The provincial government says the upcoming budget will raise Food Department allocations and fund modern, technology‑driven wheat warehouses to cut post‑harvest losses.
- KP says it has allocated Rs3 billion for the Chashma Right Bank Canal and provided Rs4 billion in bridge financing for the Northern Bypass and asserts the federal government did not release promised CRBC funds.
- Afridi said the Government of Punjab has suspended wheat supplies to KP and that federal agencies, including the National Highway Authority, are withholding NOCs needed to open the Peshawar Bus Terminal access road and to allow foreign engineers to visit the Swat dam.
- The province warns that without the pledged federal funding, scheduled wheat deliveries and NOC clearances, irrigation expansion and storage projects will be delayed and households could face slower farm output growth and higher food prices.