KBP to launch 'contact with farmers' campaign

The Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) to launch a contact-with-farmers campaign before running an anti-corruption movement next month and has set up committees to contact and convince them of supporting it. The setting-up of these committees was announced in a joint meeting of the Kisan Board Pakistan, Kisan Board Punjab and Kisan Raaj Movement on Wednesday.
Kisan Board Pakistan President Sadiq Khan Khakwani chaired the gathering which also saw the presence of Secretary General Malik Muhammad Ramzan Rohari. Kisan Raaj Movement Chairman Arsalan Khan Khakwani and Information Secretary Haji Muhammad Ramzan Rohari later told the media that the board had considered looting of farmers by sugar mills, cotton mills and the rice mafia. The meeting also claimed that the farmers were offered lower prices, thus depriving them of proper return of their labour.