Sindh Abadgar Itehad (SAI) president Nawab Zubair Talpur has demanded Sindh Government to announce special agriculture package in the annual budget order to facilitate the growers and agriculture of the province. Addressing the press conference here at Hyderabad Press Club on Tuesday, he said ineffective policy adopted by the Sindh Government is destroying the agriculture sector as well as causing numerous issues for growers of the province.
Under special agriculture package, he demanded that the provincial government should grant subsidy on fertilizers and agriculture equipments and also withdraw the general sales tax on agriculture. If the government avoids announcing special agriculture package, the SAI would stage sit in and protest for the acceptance.
He said the Prime Minister Imran Khan had announced subsidy on fertilizer but the same was not granted in Sindh as a result of which the price of urea fertilizers has reached to Rs 1800 per bag as compared to rate of Rs 1360 per bag which fixed in last year. Similarly, he said the price of tractor had reached to Rs 2.1 million as compared to last year price of Rs 1.7 million.
If the provincial government failed to take sincere measures for strengthening of agriculture sector, he informed that Sindh Abadgar Itehad would launch massive campaign after Eidul Fitr for acceptance of genuine demands of the growers.
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