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Wheat support price in Pakistan — Rs 4,500 per 40kg for the 2027 crop

Checked by Jahanzaib, MandiRates · Updated 11 Nov 2026, 12:00 PKT · Every figure on this page names its source and date.

The wheat support price in Pakistan for the 2027 crop is Rs 4,500 per 40kg (one maund), set as an indicative price on 23 October 2026. It is a government benchmark for the coming harvest — not today's mandi price and not today's atta price. Punjab mandis were already averaging about Rs 4,551 per 40kg on the hub figure (Rs 4,546 on the Punjab page) on 2 Nov 2026 (AMIS), so the indicative price sits Rs 51 below the hub mandi average (Rs 46 below the Punjab-page average), and well above the lowest mandis (Rahim Yar Khan Rs 3,363) and below the highest (Rawalpindi Rs 5,640).

What “indicative” means — read this before quoting Rs 4,500

• Indicative, not notified: the Rs 4,500 figure was announced by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on 23 Oct 2026, after consultation with the President, PML-N president, and the Punjab and Sindh chief ministers. Reporting on 27 Oct 2026 said its formal notification was still pending, and the announcement did not identify which agency would buy the crop, on what terms, or with what money. A re-check on 11 Nov 2026 found no notification published since: Punjab's 5 Nov announcement restates the price, and Business Recorder (5 Nov 2026) still calls it the “proposed” price. Do not call it a “notified support price” until a notification is published.
• National wheat policy: the federal government announced a national wheat policy on 26 Oct 2026, described by PID as the first comprehensive national wheat policy in nearly four decades, with a strategic reserve of up to six million tonnes. That policy followed the dropping of the support price and suspension of large-scale procurement in April 2025.
• It is a sowing-season signal: the price was set ahead of Rabi sowing (November) to encourage farmers to grow more wheat, offsetting rising input costs. Whether it becomes the price farmers are actually paid at harvest depends on the notification and the procurement mechanism that follows.

The three different Rs 4,500s — do not mix them up

The Sindh release-price cut is not a support price for farmers. It is the price of wheat already in government stocks, sold on to mills and atta chakkis. Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said after the 3 Nov cabinet meeting that the cut should lower flour by about Rs 17 per kg; one report of the same briefing put it at Rs 15 per kg. Treat “Rs 15–17 per kg” as the announced expectation, not a measured fall — the PBS week ended 5 Nov showed atta down only Rs 10.12 per 20kg bag (−0.34%) nationally, so the Sindh effect, if any, will first show in the next SPI (week ended 12 Nov, expected Fri 13 Nov).

Support prices over the years

Row deliberately left out: an earlier draft listed Rs 3,900 for 2024-25, but its season label could not be confirmed against the ECC / Punjab notification, so it is not published here. It will only be added with a sourced figure and a confirmed season label.

What farmers asked for — and what it costs to grow wheat

• Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) demanded Rs 5,000 per 40kg in September 2026, warning growers might not sow if a policy was delayed. Rs 4,500 is Rs 500 below that demand.
• PKI's costed proposal was Rs 4,702 per 40kg (Aug 2026): production cost about Rs 3,761 per 40kg, plus a 25% profit margin. On that cost estimate, Rs 4,500 leaves about Rs 739 per 40kg above cost (about +20%) — a margin, but below PKI's proposed price. Label the Rs 3,761 cost as PKI's estimate, not an official cost.
• Rs 4,542 is a different, cost-based figure — not the announced price: Wealth Pakistan (Azeem Ahmed Khan) reported an official Ministry of National Food Security & Research assessment putting the cost-based indicative price at Rs 4,542 per 40kg for the 2026-27 crop — gross cost Rs 159,009 per acre at a 1,800 kg/acre yield, i.e. production cost Rs 3,534 per 40kg plus a 25% return, under average Punjab conditions. That is an assessment, not the announced Rs 4,500 price and not a notification. Note the ministry's Rs 3,534 cost is not the same as PKI's Rs 3,761 estimate above — different cost bases, do not mix them.
• Sindh's own proposal: Sindh formally proposed reinstating a minimum support price for 2025-26, suggesting the previous season's Rs 4,000 per 40kg be maintained or increased — before accepting the federal Rs 3,500 for that season.

What Rs 4,500 means for a farmer

Work it out from your own yield — do not use a made-up yield. Per kg: Rs 112.50. Per 100kg: Rs 11,250. Revenue per acre = Rs 4,500 × (your yield in 40kg maunds per acre). Example only, with a yield you enter: at 30 maunds/acre, revenue would be Rs 135,000 per acre at the indicative price; at 40 maunds, Rs 180,000. Those are arithmetic examples, not yield claims.

Update — 10 November 2026 (Punjab support program, sowing season)

• Punjab wheat target 16.5 million acres for Rabi 2026-27, with the Rs 4,500/40kg support price restated by Provincial Agriculture Minister Syed Ashiq Hussain Kirmani at a review meeting (reported 5 Nov 2026, The Asian Mirror). Sowing window 1–20 November (irrigated); late sowing 21–30 November.
• Kissan Card: Rs 150 billion allocated for wheat growers this Rabi season; Rs 17 billion for DAP fertiliser. Extra Rs 3,500/acre DAP loan on Kissan Card, per the CM Punjab Wheat Support Program 2026-27 summary (Zarat Ghar, published 4 Nov 2026).
• Certified seed: approved 50kg bags at Rs 7,000 after an Rs 800/bag subsidy.
• Status wording unchanged: no formal federal notification of the Rs 4,500 indicative price was found in the 11 Nov 2026 re-check — Punjab's announcement restates the price and the program around it, it does not by itself prove a federal notification. Keep “indicative, not yet formally notified” until a notification is published.

Sources: The Asian Mirror, 5 Nov 2026; Zarat Ghar, CM Punjab Wheat Support Program summary, published 4 Nov 2026.

Update — 11 November 2026 (notification re-check)

• No formal notification found: re-checked 11 Nov 2026 across Dawn (5 Nov), The Asian Mirror (5 Nov), Business Recorder (5 Nov), ProPakistani (5 Nov) and the 26 Oct National Wheat Policy announcement (PID). The press calls the price “fixed” or “set”, but no source publishes a notification document, gazette reference or notification number, and no buyer or procurement mechanism has been named. Wording stays “indicative, not yet formally notified”.
• Rs 4,542 — a separate cost-based figure: see the cost section above. Wealth Pakistan reported a food-ministry assessment of Rs 4,542 per 40kg (cost Rs 3,534 plus 25% return). It is not the announced Rs 4,500 price and not a notification.

Sources: Dawn, 5 Nov 2026; The Asian Mirror, 5 Nov 2026; Business Recorder, 5 Nov 2026; KhabarWire, 27 Oct 2026 (notification “still pending”); Wealth Pakistan (Azeem Ahmed Khan), cost-based assessment Rs 4,542 per 40kg.

What could change this price

• Formal notification of the Rs 4,500 indicative price (no formal notification found as of the 11 Nov 2026 re-check) — watch PID / the Ministry of National Food Security.
• The procurement mechanism: who buys, how much, and in which districts. The 26 Oct policy announcement did not name these.
• Punjab and Sindh procurement announcements for the 2027 harvest (April–May 2027).
• The next PBS SPI, Fri 13 Nov (week ended 12 Nov), for the first read on whether the Sindh release-price cut moved flour prices.