Sugarcane crisis: Farmers call for CM to step down
Haroon said that the government should arrest owners of these mills and force them to buy the cane
HYDERABAD:
Hundreds of sugarcane farmers staged a sit-in in Tando Muhammad Khan on Saturday as part of their ongoing protests about crop pricing, asking Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah to step down. The farmers have been demanding the rate of Rs182 per maund, which was also notified by the provincial government but the sugar mills are offering only Rs155. Former UN ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon said that the government should arrest owners of these mills and force them to buy the cane. Sindh Chamber of Agriculture member Nabi Bux Sathio warned of a wheat crisis later this year, saying that the crop could not be sown as the mills have still not procured the cane from the farmers, leaving their fields occupied.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2015.
Hundreds of sugarcane farmers staged a sit-in in Tando Muhammad Khan on Saturday as part of their ongoing protests about crop pricing, asking Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah to step down. The farmers have been demanding the rate of Rs182 per maund, which was also notified by the provincial government but the sugar mills are offering only Rs155. Former UN ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon said that the government should arrest owners of these mills and force them to buy the cane. Sindh Chamber of Agriculture member Nabi Bux Sathio warned of a wheat crisis later this year, saying that the crop could not be sown as the mills have still not procured the cane from the farmers, leaving their fields occupied.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2015.