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Sindh Abadgar Board has demanded to Sindh Government to announce wheat procurement policy as delay in this regard creating unrest among the growers of the province. Addressing a press conference here at Hyderabad Press Club on Saturday, the Senior Vice President Sindh Abadgar Board Mehmood Nawaz Shah informed that the executive meeting of SAB, which held today under his chair, has expressed grave concern over the delay in announcement of wheat procurement policy from Sindh Government.
He informed that the growers of the province has already competed wheat thrashing a month back and due to delay, they are being forced to sale their wheat at Rs900 per 40 kg instead of Rs1120 per 40 kg. He said that SAB has demanded early announcement of wheat procurement police of the provincial government with fixation of wheat price as well as opening of procurement centres so that the growers could save Rs25 billion, which they invested in wheat crop.
He informed that Punjab Government had already announced it's wheat policy and set procurement target as four million tons of wheat this year. In the past, he informed that Sindh Government had announced wheat procurement policy with fixation of rate and setting target of 1.4 million tons and opening of procurement centre before start of the month of April every year, but this year, the growers are still waiting the announcement of the government policy.
He held the corrupt practices in Sindh Food Department responsible in delaying announcement of wheat policy adding that such delaying tactics cause great losses to agriculture economy of Sindh and financial victimization of wheat growers.
He demanded the provincial government to announce the wheat procurement policy with immediate effect so that the wheat growers could take sigh of relief. Among others, Aslam Mari, Irfan Jatoi,zulfiqar Yousufani, Qazi Abdul Sattar, and Abdul Rehman Khatti were also present on the occasion.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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