This is to highlight plight of sugarcane farmers of Sindh who have been forced to confine the sale of their crop to mill owners within declared zones to facilitate powerful lobby of sugar mill owners. There is no law passed by parliament which restricts the choice to farmers to sell their crops to buyers within certain specified demarcated zones.
This is abuse of powers by powerful sugar cartels who now want to deny the small farmers of their profits. If this illegal precedent is allowed to continue, what will happen tomorrow when wheat growers in south Punjab are forced to sell their stocks to wheat mills located in their areas, or the same is done in KP or central Punjab. This abuse by the powerful sugar mill cartels must be exposed and the culprits punished, irrespective of their political affiliations.
ANEELA CHANDIO
Sukkur