KHANPUR: Agri-Forum Pakistan, Punjab president Ch Ahmed Ali has urged the government to revise support prices of important crops such as sugarcane, cotton and wheat so that growers get due incentives and fair returns from the market.
Talking to reporters here on Thursday,he urged the government to buy 3 million bales of cotton through TCP,saying that this would stabilise the prices of cotton and farmers would be saved from losses.
He suggested per maund support prices as--Rs 1500 for wheat, Rs250 for sugarcane and Rs4000 for cotton. "In the past few years prices of fertilisers, seeds, agri implements as well as diesel have increased markedly", he said, adding that prices be revised considering the ground facts.
He also demanded fair distribution of canal water, check on fake fertilizers as well as action against corrupt officials of the irrigation department.
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