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Farmers resent ban on wheat movement
HYDERABAD, April 26:
The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has expressed
concern over imposition of section, 144 CrPC, by
the Sindh government under which inter-district
movement of wheat has been banned.
A weekly meeting of the chamber, held here on
Sunday and presided over by Syed Qamaruzzaman
Shah, termed the ban illegal and demanded that the
Sindh government should lift it immediately.
Taking serious notice of irregular water rotation
programme announced by the irrigation department
throughout the province specially in the Naseer
division, the chamber urged the government to
announce a viable rotation programme in order to
minimize the adverse affect on crops.
Meanwhile, Sindh Abadgar Board President Abdul
Majeed Nizamani also demanded that the ban on
wheat movement imposed by the federal, Sindh and
Punjab governments should be withdrawn.
In a statement faxed to Dawn, he termed the ban
illegal, violation of international laws and
principles of free trade. Mr Nizamani said that
poor growers of the Badin district were stopped on
the roads and wheat was purchased from them by
force. He termed the act shameful and tyrannical.
He said that the government could step in and
purchase the crop to protect interests of growers
only in case its market price fell short of
support price. Mr Nizamani said that if a poor
grower was paid Rs5 more than the support price,
the government could not tolerate it.
He said that the growers were willing to sell
wheat to the government but on the pattern of
India and other countries which purchased wheat at
market rates. He wondered if the government was
aware of the fact that the poor growers were not
getting even Rs20 per maund on their onion crop.
He said why was the government oblivious of the
fact that the sugar mills of Sindh were
withholding a huge amount of Rs5 billion which
they were legally bound to pay to the cane
growers.
Mr Nizamani also drew the attention of the
government to the undeniable fact that fertilizer
was sold at higher price and that the poor growers
had sustained a loss of Rs15 billion last year due
to the sale of adulterated pesticides.
He urged the government to explain what
corrective measures it had taken in this regard.
He said that the ban on the movement of wheat
would have a devastating affect on the national
economy.
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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