Lack of action: Farmers’ sugarcane protest continues
Farmers are demanding Rs185 per 40 kilogrammes as the official rate for the cane crop
HYDERABAD:
The issue of a delay in notifying the sugarcane crop’s official price drew farmers for a protest for the second day on Thursday. On the call of the Sindh Abadgar Board, more than a thousand farmers gathered in Tando Muhammad Khan district for a sit-in. Earlier on Wednesday, a similar protest was organised in Tando Allahyar district. Farmers are demanding Rs185 per 40 kilogrammes as the official rate for the cane crop. According to the Sindh Sugar Factories Control Act, the provincial government has to notify the rate by October 1 every year. The farmers claim that the lobbyists for the sugar factories are influencing the government to delay and fix a low price for the crop.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 11th, 2015.
The issue of a delay in notifying the sugarcane crop’s official price drew farmers for a protest for the second day on Thursday. On the call of the Sindh Abadgar Board, more than a thousand farmers gathered in Tando Muhammad Khan district for a sit-in. Earlier on Wednesday, a similar protest was organised in Tando Allahyar district. Farmers are demanding Rs185 per 40 kilogrammes as the official rate for the cane crop. According to the Sindh Sugar Factories Control Act, the provincial government has to notify the rate by October 1 every year. The farmers claim that the lobbyists for the sugar factories are influencing the government to delay and fix a low price for the crop.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 11th, 2015.