KISAN BORD PAKISTAN PROTEST ON 20-11-2013.THE BUSENESS RECORDER 21-11-2013
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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.
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KBP holds protest rallies
RECORDER REPORTLAHORE: 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.
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