Agriculture
- Wheat: Quota Of Flour Mill Suspended
Sindh food department on Thursday raided flour mills and suspended wheat quota of a flour mill. After receiving several complaints on the price issue, the food department has decided to take strict action against the flour mills that are selling wheat...
- Farmers Threaten To Set Sugar Cane On Fire, Shut Mills
Rejecting the support prices of Punjab Government the farmers of Southern Punjab threatened to set their sugar cane produce on fire and shut the sugar mills if Punjab Government did not fix the sugar cane support price at Rs 300 per maund. President...
- Payment To Sugar Millers: Mof Refuses To Give Rs 500 Million To Tdap
Finance Ministry has reportedly refused to give Rs 500 million to Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to pay sugar millers as inland freight subsidy on export of 0.5 million MT of sugar, reveals official documents available with Business Recorder....
- Army Worm, Aphid Attack: Experts Warn Cotton Growers
Friday, July 19, 2013 Punjab Agriculture Department has warned the growers on Thursday that chances of attack of army worm and aphid on cotton crop have increased due to recent rains. Agricultural experts said that growers can save their crops from damages...
- Ban Imposed On Release Of Inland Subsidy On Sugar Export
MUSHTAQ GHUMMAN Caretaker Minister for Commerce and Textile Industry, Maqbool H H Rehmatoola has reportedly imposed a ban on release of inland subsidy on export of sugar as well as the subsidy under the Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF) 2009-12...
Agriculture
Exploitation of Sugarcane growers
Over the past few weeks, sugarcane growers in Sindh have become desperate. In the past, the sugarcane crushing season began in November but unfortunately, in recent years, mill owners of 36 sugar mills in the province ? a major ratio of these owners in the corridors of power ? are using delaying tactics, exploiting the inflation and disaster-hit growers and also trying to ravage the agricultural economy of the province with their devilish design to invest less and earn exorbitant profits.
The sugarcane commissioner and other relevant authorities seem to be in a deep slumber and there is no one to take notice of this anti-economic behaviour of the sugar mill owners. It is high time that the provincial government took some concrete steps to protect sugarcane growers. Is there anyone in power who could come forward and protect the growers from the exploitation of the mill-owners?
I am confident that if the growers and workers are protected from exploitation at the hands of mill owners, given enhanced rates and ensured timely payments, it would have a positive impact on the agriculture sector of Sindh. If this does not happen, Sindh?s rural economy will undergo massive damage because the growers will not have the resources to purchase agricultural inputs, which will in turn lead to food insecurity and inflation.
Hashim Abro
Published in The Express Tribune, November 7th, 2012.
- Wheat: Quota Of Flour Mill Suspended
Sindh food department on Thursday raided flour mills and suspended wheat quota of a flour mill. After receiving several complaints on the price issue, the food department has decided to take strict action against the flour mills that are selling wheat...
- Farmers Threaten To Set Sugar Cane On Fire, Shut Mills
Rejecting the support prices of Punjab Government the farmers of Southern Punjab threatened to set their sugar cane produce on fire and shut the sugar mills if Punjab Government did not fix the sugar cane support price at Rs 300 per maund. President...
- Payment To Sugar Millers: Mof Refuses To Give Rs 500 Million To Tdap
Finance Ministry has reportedly refused to give Rs 500 million to Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to pay sugar millers as inland freight subsidy on export of 0.5 million MT of sugar, reveals official documents available with Business Recorder....
- Army Worm, Aphid Attack: Experts Warn Cotton Growers
Friday, July 19, 2013 Punjab Agriculture Department has warned the growers on Thursday that chances of attack of army worm and aphid on cotton crop have increased due to recent rains. Agricultural experts said that growers can save their crops from damages...
- Ban Imposed On Release Of Inland Subsidy On Sugar Export
MUSHTAQ GHUMMAN Caretaker Minister for Commerce and Textile Industry, Maqbool H H Rehmatoola has reportedly imposed a ban on release of inland subsidy on export of sugar as well as the subsidy under the Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF) 2009-12...