LAHORE: Punjab Agriculture Minister Ahmed Ali Aulakh on Tuesday told the Punjab Assembly that special teams of agriculture department raided 635 areas of the province, booked 322 dealers and recovered spurious-adulterated pesticides worth Rs 416.8 million from them during the year 2011.
He stated this while answering to questions by members during question hour’s session here on Tuesday. The minister said, licences of 178 dealers were cancelled while 297 were served show cause notices.
As a result of massive crackdown, he said, the ratio of selling fake and adulterated agri medicines had dropped to 3.42% from 8.57 percent in the province.
Denying any subsidy on agriculture inputs, the minister said, the government had no intention to allow this in future.
To question bout market committees, Aulakh said, these (market committees) were being formed by following thorough election process. He was of the claim that market committed had now been showing an increase of 65 percent in its earnings.
The minister said that a total of eight testing laboratories were functioning in the province where these laboratories were developing various varieties of seeds.
During last four years, he said, 24,876 specimens were collected by these laboratories and out of which 310 were found substandard.
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