AGL 40.64 Increased By ▲ 0.44 (1.09%)
AIRLINK 129.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.11 (-0.09%)
BOP 6.34 Decreased By ▼ -0.26 (-3.94%)
CNERGY 4.13 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (2.48%)
DCL 8.70 Increased By ▲ 0.25 (2.96%)
DFML 42.30 Increased By ▲ 1.05 (2.55%)
DGKC 88.00 Increased By ▲ 1.00 (1.15%)
FCCL 33.62 Increased By ▲ 0.27 (0.81%)
FFBL 66.00 Increased By ▲ 0.10 (0.15%)
FFL 10.70 Increased By ▲ 0.16 (1.52%)
HUBC 112.65 Increased By ▲ 1.95 (1.76%)
HUMNL 15.80 Increased By ▲ 0.57 (3.74%)
KEL 4.80 Increased By ▲ 0.02 (0.42%)
KOSM 7.97 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (1.79%)
MLCF 42.05 Increased By ▲ 0.15 (0.36%)
NBP 61.00 Increased By ▲ 0.50 (0.83%)
OGDC 189.10 Increased By ▲ 6.30 (3.45%)
PAEL 25.56 Increased By ▲ 0.20 (0.79%)
PIBTL 7.26 Increased By ▲ 1.00 (15.97%)
PPL 149.16 Increased By ▲ 1.35 (0.91%)
PRL 25.00 Increased By ▲ 0.44 (1.79%)
PTC 16.40 Increased By ▲ 0.16 (0.99%)
SEARL 70.53 Increased By ▲ 0.03 (0.04%)
TELE 7.38 Increased By ▲ 0.08 (1.1%)
TOMCL 36.14 Decreased By ▼ -0.16 (-0.44%)
TPLP 8.03 Increased By ▲ 0.18 (2.29%)
TREET 16.26 Increased By ▲ 0.96 (6.27%)
TRG 51.50 Decreased By ▼ -0.20 (-0.39%)
UNITY 27.31 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.15%)
WTL 1.27 Increased By ▲ 0.04 (3.25%)
BR100 9,929 Increased By 87.1 (0.88%)
BR30 30,514 Increased By 477.5 (1.59%)
KSE100 93,203 Increased By 682.1 (0.74%)
KSE30 28,961 Increased By 174.8 (0.61%)

Agriculture sector is facing acute shortage of urea fertilisers and dealers are selling it on inflated rates, which would affect the production of crops particularly sugarcane. "Urea is important for growth of crops and its shortage would have bad impact on harvest." Ghulam Ali, a farmer from Sargodha, told newsmen.
He said some fertiliser dealers had created artificial shortage to earn undue profit. Chaudhry Abid Ranjha, also a farmer from Kotmoman said fertiliser dealers delivered one urea bag after one week on depositing of National Identity Cards with them.
He said those dealers were also earning undue profit by selling a bag of urea at Rs 920 instead of government fixed rate of Rs 635. He urged the government to take measures to overcome this shortage in order to save particularly the cultivation of Rabbi crops.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2008

Comments

Comments are closed.