Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) strongly reacting to the news of withdrawal of subsidy on imported urea bag and increasing its prices by Rs300 per bag has urged the government to immediately take back this decision.
This demand was raised during a meeting of KBP President Sardar Zafar Hussein with the delegation of growers from Layyah and Bhakkar districts. Growers also expressed their grave concern over the news of further increase in electricity and diesel prices and alleged that agriculture had reached to the brink of total destruction due to increase in the agricultural input prices.
Growers also demanded increasing the prices of cotton and saving the farmers from the exploitation of sugar millers.
Later, Sardar Zafar administered oath to the newly elected office-bearers of KBP Bhakkar. He also addressed various growers’ gatherings in different cities and urged the government to arrest unjustified increase in the prices of electricity and petroleum products and requested to decrease prices of agricultural inputs, including pesticides and fertilisers to save the agricultural economy and grower from destruction and food crisis.
Speakers at the occasion warned the government of staging sit-in in front of the assemblies if their demands are not met.