Kissan Board Pakistan (KBP) has demanded of the government to set up high-level inquiry commission to probe into the current sugar crisis and to fix responsibility. Talking to a group of newsmen here on Thursday, KBP Secretary General Ibrahim Mughal alleged that the sugar mill-owners are also responsible for the present crisis in the country.
He said that inefficiency of local sugar industry, outdated production methods and 'greed' are three main problems confronted to the local sugar industry. "It is a matter of shame that a country with over 70 percent population involved in agriculture was importing basic commodities like vegetables and sugar," he added.
Instead of making money through improved efficiency, industrialists from Pakistan make profits through negative means. They neither pay farmers for cane nor weigh cane honestly, he added.
He said that Pakistan is at the bottom among cane producing countries of the world. Pakistan has been producing four million tonnes of sugar from 2.7 million acres that it has been sowing for the last many years. The Indians are producing 6.7 million tonnes of sugar from the same acreage, he said.
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