Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) leadership has claimed that fertiliser application had reduced very much due to daily increase in prices of urea fertilisers, which may result in one third reduction in the agricultural production.
Whereas increase of many hundred rupees in the prices of urea fertiliser had deprived farming community from Rs 28 billion, alleged KBP President Sardar Zafar Hussein and General Secretary Malik Muhammad Ramzan in a joint statement issued here Wednesday.
They alleged that the government had started dropping 'fertiliser bomb' on poor farmers after diesel, electricity and gas bombs. They said decrease in national agricultural production would prove last nail in the coffin of already dying economy and production of wheat less than the target may create food shortage in the country. KBP leaders also criticised the sugar millers for depriving the farmers from their due right by decreasing the price of sugarcane, delaying payments and selling sugar on higher rates. They urged the government not to impose agricultural income tax on the farmers. Otherwise farmers would be forced to stage protest against the rulers, they warned.
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