Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) has launched a movement to press the government for providing interest-free loans to rice, cotton and sugarcane growers hit hard by prices decline for saving the agricultural economy.
KBP four member delegation led by its Central President Sadiq Khan Khakwani held meetings with Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Finance Minister Muzaffar Saeed, Special Secretary Azeem Siddiqui, JI KPK Chief Professor Muhammad Ibrahim and others to press the provincial government to take steps for saving the rice, cotton and sugarcane growers who hit hard because of decline in prices. The delegation included KBP Secretary General Malik Muhammad Ramzan Rohari, KPK KBP President Rizwan Ullah Khan and Abdul Samad Safi.
KBP Central Secretary Information Haji Muhammad Ramzan said here on Wednesday the meetings were part of a movement to press the government for initiating interest free loans for the growers. The KBP delegation said that interest free loans should be given to growers of the country as the rulers had launched yellow cab schemes or loan for jobless schemes worth billions of rupees.
The delegation participants were of the view that it would save the sinking agricultural economy. Haji Muhammad Ramzan claimed that the KPK government had given a hopeful response to this request of the Board. The Board would soon meet the political and religious parties' leaders to evolve a strategy for expanding this movement to other three provinces, Haji Muhammad Ramzan concluded.