Amritsar
A delegation of the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) visited Amritsar, Punjab to understand the process of procurement, testing and transportation of wheat from India to Afghanistan.
Dr Stephanie Heard, Loss Prevention Officer at WFP, said that the delegation is in India to familiarise themselves with the process of the wheat procurement as India has transported 10,000 MTs of wheat to Afghanistan.
“We are here to see the initiative that the Government of India has taken for the people of Afghanistan,” noted Sandro Banao, Commodity Specialist at the UN World Food Programme.
He praised India for helping Afghanistan with humanitarian aid, saying “it is very kind of India to send wheat to Afghanistan”.
Citing the increasing demand for wheat globally, Banao also showed interest in UN WFP ramping up its cooperation with India.
“Also, our interest is to scale up our partnership with the Government of India due to the increased requirement of wheat globally,” he added.
