Secretary Agriculture Punjab Muhammad Mahmood said on Friday that the government would protect the rights of the growers and nobody would be allowed to exploit them.
Mahmood was talking to a delegation of 'Anjuman-e-Kashtkaran' which called on him led by its President Rana Iftikhar Muhammad, General Secretary Javed Iqbal Khan and others.
Talking to the farmers, the Secretary admitted that the growers' organisations were playing an important role in highlighting the hardships being faced by the farming community.
He claimed that the government had taken solid and revolutionary steps for prosperity of this community.
He said that the government was trying to promote mechanised farming by setting up hi-tech machinery centers which can benefit the farmers a lot and add to the per acre yield of different crops.