‘Kitchen Garden Project will cheapen vegetable prices’

HAFIZABAD – The Kitchen Garden Project is Punjab government’s revolutionary step to increase vegetables’ production as well as provision of cheap vegetables to the consumers. Punjab Kitchen Garden Project Director Asghar Khan said this while addressing a seminar held at Hafizabad.
He said the objective of introducing this project was not only to create a new trend of growing vegetables at domestic level but also to provide cheap vegetables to the people of the province. At least 100 kitchen gardens would be established at district level in Punjab, he further said and added that experts in the Agriculture Department would provide assistance to the people who would establish the kitchen gardens.
Hafizabad District Coordination officer Muhammad Asif said the kitchen gardens would increase environmental beauty and income of the growers. He said Pakistan’s soil was not less fertile than that of any advance country and 100 sites had been selected for establishing kitchen gardens across Hafizabad.
Agriculture Executive District Officer Rana Basharat Ali, Agriculture District Officer Asghar Ali Dogar, Agriculture Deputy District Officer Javed Akhtar Padihar and other officers and experts also addressed the seminar.
‘Hike in petroleum prices is unjust’: Gujranwala Kisan Board Divisional President Amanulah Chattha has said that hike in petroleum prices is unjust and a burden on the growers. While addressing a meeting of the Kisan Board, he said that wheat price was decreasing but the government was not taking measures to stabilise it which was proving harmful for the growers. He warned that if government could not control hike in petroleum prices, the farmers would come on roads.
Retired teacher slaughtered to death: A retired school teacher was slaughtered to death in a forest near Jaidke village.Reportedly, a retired teacher Iftikhar was on its way to village Wingay from Hafizabad. While passing through a forest near Jaidke, some unknown people slaughtered him and fled away.
Rally condemns Shahbaz Bhatti’s murder: Christian community, led by Hafizabad All Pakistan Minorities Alliance District Coordinator Qamar Javed, took out a protest rally against the assassination of Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti.
The rally that started from the Christian Colony, passed through various roads and ended in front of the press club where they protested against the minister’s assassination. Speakers, including Qamar Javed Sindhu, Paster Zeeshan Rabret, Father Joseph Shahzad, Master Joseph, Patris Masih and Abbas Masih, said the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti was an act of terrorism.
They said the Christian community would support Muslims against terrorism and added that the minister’s murder was a conspiracy to sabotage interfaith harmony in the country.