In a statement issued here on Monday, he said the agriculture sector is one of the key components of the economy of country and the province and setting up agro-based industries cannot only be helpful for rapid industrial development but it will also help in resolving the issue of unemployment and increasing rate of influx from rural to urban localities. The agro-based industries could provide job opportunities to jobless persons at their doorstep, he added.

Similarly, he said that setting up grain markets in all districts of the province can discourage the middlemen mafia and provide opportunity to growers to gain maximum profits of their produces.

It is middlemen mafia, which disallowing the growers to get reasonable profit of their produces and improve their socio-economic conditions, he said and added that with establishment of grain markets, the growers will be able to directly sale their produces and not only get reasonable earnings from their produces but also improve their socio-economic conditions, he added.

He said that the provincial government fully aware of the problems being faced by the growers community due to middlemen mafia therefore, it should review the project of establishment of grain markets in all districts of province at the pattern of Punjab so that trend of middlemen commission could be discouraged and the agriculture produces could be sold on government fixed rates.

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