Sugarcane: Growers protest on ‘violation’ of prices

Urge Sindh govt to settle commodity at acceptable rate.

KARACHI: The hours’ long negotiation between protesting sugarcane growers and the Sindh government was not successful on Monday. The former continued its agitation till the government prescribed the implementation of the sugarcane price at Rs182 per 40kg in the province. 

“The government had fixed the price of cane, but millers are blatantly violating it, giving us lower prices. We will prefer to continue the agitation rather than selling our commodity at Rs155,” said Sindh Abadgar Board Vice President Mohammad Nawaz Ali Shah.



Shah said the growers would soon announce their further line of action. Earlier, a delegation led by the growers’ leaders held a meeting with CM Qaim Ali Shah at the chief minister house.

The CM was supposed to hold the press briefing on the issue in order to brief the media about the government decision on this matter, but the briefing was cancelled at the eleventh hour owing to the deadlock between them.

The mill owners have reportedly asked the government that they would pay a maximum of Rs172.

Published in The Express Tribune, March  10^th,  2015.

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