HYDERABAD: The Sugarcane Growers Joint Action Committee has called off its scheduled protest of blocking the National Highway in Hyderabad on December 23.
The committee had withdrawn its call here Friday at a press conference held in the office of Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) in the light of the Sindh High Court's order."The court had ordered what the committee had been demanding from Sindh government," said SCA's President Qabool Muhammad Khatian who was accompanied by the office bearers of Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB), Sindh Abadgar Ittehad (SAI) and Sindh Agriculture and Research Council (SARC).
He informed that a bench of SHC in Karachi on Thursday ordered the sugar mills to pay Rs172 per 40 kg to the growers and to deposit Rs10 per 40 kg in the court.
He added that the deposited amount would be either given to the farmers or returned to the mills after the court gave a judgment in the case.
Khatian said the farmers started the protest to demand from Sindh Government to implement Rs182 per 40 kg rate of sugarcane which the government earlier notified.
According to him, blocking the highway to express their protest was not a desirable choice for the farmers and added that they had been waiting for almost 3 months to get the right price for the crop.
SAB's President Abdul Majeed Nizamani, SAI's President Nawab Zubair Talpur and other farmers' representatives were present on the occasion.
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