Tag: Farmers
SBP arranges Agri-Islamic financing for farmers
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has developed a model product based on ‘Salam’ to meet the production finance (working capital) needs of the...
Farmers in Dadu demand compensation for destroyed animal feed
Various areas of Dadu are still submerged under three to four feet of water, destroying fodder which cultivators had stacked for their livestock, and...
Punjab government urged to provide relief to poultry farmers
During the past three years food inflation has surpassed over 70 per cent, but poultry meat prices are hovering around 33 per cent. Poultry...
Farmers need to act as businessmen
Agriculture plays a prominent role in Pakistan’s economy. More than half of the country’s population is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture and it...
Low cotton prices exacerbating farmers misery
Farmers and cotton growers have asked the government to protect them and intervene to stabilise fluctuating lint prices or else the farmers would suffer...
Multiple gene Bt cotton preferred by Indian farmers
In recent years, there has been an increasing trend to adopt multiple gene Bt cotton hybrids by cotton farmers in India. Multiple gene Bt...
Farmers stage demo against levy of RGST
Farmers staged a demonstration in front of the press club here against the levy of Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) on agriculture tools, pesticides...
Farmers protest acute water shortage
The growers along the Kunri and Nabisar minor canals in Umerkot district took out a rally and set up a protest camp in front...
BAC restrained from seizing farmers’ land
A Lahore High Court division bench restrained Border Area Committee (BAC) from snatching possession of agricultural land in border area of Kasur from its...
Farmers loot gunny bags in Wazirabad
At least 25 to 30 farmers raided the wheat purchase centre at Ahmadnagar Chattha and looted empty wheat bags. Reportedly, the farmers entered the...
Veterinarians urged to help the livestock farmers
As many as 1,500 rabies exposure cases have been reported in Lahore by the Institute of Public Health (IPH). Among them 95 per cent...
Stop exploiting the poor farmers, Warraich asks CM
Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Punjab chapter President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich said the PPP was holding talks with all political parties, including the PML-Q, as...
Urea producers pass on the bill to farmers
KARACHI - The cost of agricultural inputs are surging as fertiliser producing companies have started to pass on the negative impact of, what they claim, repeated suspension of gas supply to their plants by the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL). The Engro Fertilisers Limited (EFL), a subsidiary of Engro Corporation, has enhanced prices of its urea by Rs 60 per bag after one of its new urea fertiliser plants was rendered nonfunctional due to suspension of gas by the SNGPL.
4,000 farmers to get subsidised tractors
KARACHI - In an effort to boost the agriculture sector of the province, the Sindh government on Saturday held the balloting for distribution of 4,000 tractors among the growers of the province.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah performed the balloting in a simple but impressive ceremony at the Chief Minister's House.
Speaking on the occasion, he said the PPP-led government under its party manifesto has made efforts to boost up the agriculture sector while making
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah performed the balloting in a simple but impressive ceremony at the Chief Minister's House.
Speaking on the occasion, he said the PPP-led government under its party manifesto has made efforts to boost up the agriculture sector while making
Farmers demand withdrawal of GST on wheat
FAISALABAD - The Punjab government, after protests from formers, has approved payment of delivery charges of Rs 7 per bag to the farmers during the upcoming wheat procurement program but the confusion over imposition of 17 percent GST on wheat still exists ahead of the procurement schedule starting from April 20. Earlier, Kissan Board Faisalabad officials and farmers staged protests in Samundary, Tandlianwala, Chak Jhumra and other places against the cancellation of delivery charges
SHC told not to worry – CDGK, dairy farmers figuring...
KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday adjourned proceedings on the constitutional petition regarding increase in milk price, after it was told that negotiations for the reduction in prices were being held between dairy farmers and the city government. The SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Musheer Alam and Justice Syed Hassan Azhar Rizvi was hearing the case, where Advocate Manzoor Ahmed, counselling on behalf of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK), appeared
Surging feed prices hurting poultry farmers
ISLAMABAD - Poultry farmers, concerned over increasing feed prices, said that a large number of farms are being closed - rendering hundreds of workers jobless. "We consider this an unbearable cost and sheer injustice as in poultry - the return is too little, while there is hardly any attraction for investments to operate the same on large scales," Adil Chaudhry, a poultry farmer told APP on Saturday. He said that poultry feed, by its quality and price, is the major factor in
