Introduction & Functions

Food Directorate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is an attached Department. There are 1,414 personnel working in Food Directorate which includes 246 Executive and remaining ministerial and other staff members. The Department is organized down at the Divisional and District Level. The divisional offices headed by Assistant Director Food (BS-17), whereas the District Food Controller holds the charge of Field Office at District Level.

 Functions

The Department has the following role to perform as per Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “Rules of Business” 1985: 

1. Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Wheat
2. Prices of Food Items
3. Fixation of Minimum Guaranteed price of Sugar Cane
4. Implementation of Sugar Cane Development Cess Rules