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Cotton set on fire, farmers rally against unfair prices, power tariff
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MULTAN,Nov 6th: About 1000 farmers on Tuesday organized a big rally against less prices of their produces and the highest power tariff for agricultural sector under the auspices of Pakistan house where Secretary Textile Shahid Rashid and Cotton Commissioner Dr.Khalid Abdullah were addressing the ginners.They burnt their Phutti and two farmers received burns when they were trying to set the cotton on fire.The farmers identified as Ziaul-Qadar Madni and Majid were hospitalized in critical condition.The rally was led by Central President of Pakistan Kisan Ittehad Ch.Anwar Ali, Provincial President Khalid Khokhar and Mian Sajid Bodla. The farmers rejected Rs.170/maund for sugarcane and said that it should be fixed at Rs.300 .They also demanded support price of Rs.4000/maund for raw-cotton (Phutti) to compensate them.Otherwise they would prefer to bunt their produce on selling it against LATEST NEWS meager price. Kisan Ittehad leaders have alleged that cotton growers this year would suffer a collective loss of Rs. 187 billion as they are getting on average Rs.2000 to 2200 per maund for their produce instead of Rs. 3200 per maund suggested by theMost popular Urdu dubbing Turkish Soaps- "Ishq-e-Mamnoo" Punjab government as support price for cotton in March this year. Ch.Anwar Ali said that cotton was sown on 5.8 million acresAt least 25 people killed as car bomb exploded in Iraq in Punjab and 7.2 million acres through out the country.
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He stated that the provincial government has set a target of 15 million bales but feared that production might remain aroundtariff 12.6 million bales due to reduction in area under cotton.He said during the month of March this year Punjab AgricultureParamedic came out on roads for service structure Department proposed fixing the cotton support price at Rs. 3200 per maund, which was yet not announced. He said according12 more killed in Karachi , Death game continued to information collected by them from 13 core cotton growing districts, growers are fetching an average price of Rs. 2000 toTotal number of missing persons has reached 896, 2200 per maund.Anwar said that if a cotton grower gets Rs. 2200 per maund against the proposed support price of Rs.3000 per SPONSOR LINKS maund then it would suffer a loss of Rs. 800 to 900 per maund and collectively farmers of 28 cotton growing districts of Pakistan would suffer a loss of Rs. 150 billion. He said that basic reason of this loss is hike in the prices of fertilizer, diesel, electricity, seed and pesticides.He said that in such a situation and after facing huge losses farmers would not be able to sow next crops including wheat, canola, grams, sunflower and maize. He said such faulty policies of the government would result in destroying our whole agricultural economy, ruining our fields and cotton continued to decrease as it has decreased this year i.e., only 7.2 million acres were brought under cotton cultivation instead of 8 million acres then it would hurt our cotton and textile industry and enhance unemployment. He also questioned that how could we maintain share of textile 60 percent in our exports if this trend continues?It would enhance the gap between imports and exports. It would make importing lobbies happier, satisfy the commission mafia in Islamabad and increase poverty in rural areas. They also rejected the support price of sugarcane for Punjab describing it too meager to meet the production cost.
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