HYDERABAD, Jul 06 (APP): The Sindh Abadgar Ittehad (SAI), a farmers’ lobbying group, has demanded that the government fix the support price of wheat at Rs4,000 per 40 kilogram.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued here on Wednesday after a meeting of the farmers, the association’s President Nawab Zubair Talpur said if the demanded price was not set a majority of farmers would feel discouraged to cultivate the wheat crop owing to unabatedly soaring input prices.<\/p>\n
“Many farmers will grow wheat only to meet their household needs,” he argued.<\/p>\n
He warned that such a drop in the wheat production would compel the government to import wheat, adding that the government was already paying Rs4,400 per 40 kg for the wheat imports.<\/p>\n
The farmers also expressed dismay over the sudden drop of the cotton price from Rs10,000 to Rs6,000 per bale.<\/p>\n
The meeting also called for fixing Rs2,500 per 40 kg price of rice and Rs500 per 40 kg price of sugarcane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HYDERABAD, Jul 06 (APP): The Sindh Abadgar Ittehad (SAI), a farmers’ lobbying group, has demanded that the government fix the support price of wheat at Rs4,000 per 40 kilogram. In a statement issued here on Wednesday after a meeting of the farmers, the association’s President […]<\/p>\n
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