Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) has decided to set up a 'crisis cell' in its central office to save the growers from any sort of injustices during the forthcoming wheat procurement season. Growers will report any injustice to this office from all over the country and members of the KBP Core Committee will contact local representatives of the Board to guide the farmers about these problems and their redressal through electronic and print media.
This was decided in a meeting of the core committee of the Board held here the other day with Vice-President KBP Sarfraz Ahmad Khan in the chair. General Secretary of the Board Muhammad Ramzan Rohari briefed the participants about Indian water aggression, injustices by sugar mills and what he termed faulty wheat procurement policy of the government for the coming season.
Participants of the meeting alleged that sugar millers stopped payment to the growers towards the end of the crushing season, besides lowering the price of the sugarcane. They termed the agricultural policy of the government as anti-farmers and feared that the government would try to adopt such a wheat procurement policy which would increase the chances of its procurement by the flourmills on throwaway prices.
KBP core committee also decided to organise growers throughout the country to launch a country-wide protest against increase in the prices of agricultural inputs, injustices by sugar, fertiliser and flour millers. Crisis cell will work to organise the growers and give a call for protest, said Haji Muhammad Ramzan Secretary Information KBP in a statement.
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