KISAN BORD PAKISTAN PROTEST ON 20-11-2013.THE BUSENESS RECORDER 21-11-2013
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KBP holds protest rallies
RECORDER REPORT
LAHORE:
Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) arranged protest demonstrations and rallies
across the country on Wednesday to press the government for increase in
support price for sugar cane and wheat in line with the hike in the
prices of agricultural inputs.
The Board demanded that the
support price of sugar cane should be revised upward saying that growers
would not accept Rs170 per maund price of the commodity. It claimed
that prices of the agricultural inputs have been increased by 60 percent
during one year while charges of electricity and diesel have also gone
beyond the reach of farmers during this period, so the price of sugar
cane at last year’s level is not acceptable to them.
Speakers at
different rallies which were staged at Tehsil, District and Divisional
Headquarters, urged the government to immediately convene a meeting of
representatives of all the genuine growers’ organizations to revise the
prices of different crops keeping in view the interest of consumers and
farmer both.
They appealed to the Prime Minister and Chief
Ministers of all the provinces to make efforts for revival of
agriculture which is the backbone of the national economy.
They
also appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry to save
growers of the country from being exploited on the hands of the
millers. They said the judiciary should take suo motto and liberate
agriculture from the clutches of Babus sitting in their offices.
According
to the KBP Central Secretary Information Haji Muhammad Ramzan rallies
were held at Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Narowal,
Gujrat, Sargodha, Khushab, Mianwali, Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan,
Sukkur, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Mardan and other places of the country.
Speakers
at these rallies said today’s protest has once again proved that
farmers remained peaceful and wanted solution to their issues in a
peaceful manner. However, they warned that this peaceful struggle should
not be taken as weakness of the growers and if their justifiable
demands were not met then they had the right to take any line of action
in future.
