Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) has claimed that area under sowing of sugarcane decreased 25 percent during this season and increase in sugarcane prices is a result of gap between demand and supply. KBP President Sardar Zafar Hussein and General Secretary Malik Muhammad Ramazan while talking to media men here on Monday also claimed that price of sugarcane was not higher than Rs 130 per maund anywhere in the province and claim being made by sugar mills was wrong.
They alleged that sugar mill owners wanted to loot both farmers and masses by making hue and cry over high prices of sugarcane and role of middlemen. They warned the sugar millers to refrain from looting the farmers or be ready to face Kisan Board, which would leave no stone unturned to safeguard the interests of the growers.
KBP leaders said that the millers delayed crushing season in violation of cane act, stopped payments to the growers and made many other numerous moves to earn huge profits and now wanted to hide their wrong doings by making hue and cry of high sugarcane prices.
They urged the judiciary to conduct an inquiry in to the affairs of the sugar mills and also urged the government not to get trapped in wrong propaganda of the sugar mills. The growers said that Kisan Board would be forced to show growers' power if the millers did not stop looting the farmers. They also appealed to the growers and the masses to wage a joint move against the millers.
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