February 21, 2011

High urea prices to down farm yield: KBP



STAFF REPORT LAHORE: The Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) leadership has claimed that fertilizers application has drastically reduced due to daily increase in prices of the urea fertilizers, which may result in one third reduction in agricultural production.

“Increase of many hundred rupees in the prices of urea fertiliser had deprived the farming community from Rs 28 billion,” KBP President Sardar Zafar Hussein and General Secretary Malik Muhammad Ramzan claimed in a joint statement issued here last week.

According to them, the government has started dropping 'fertilizer bomb' on poor farmers after diesel, electricity and gas bombs. They said that decrease in national agricultural production would prove the last nail in the coffin of already dying economy and production of wheat less than the target may create food shortage in the country.
The KBP leaders also criticized 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.
http://www.technologytimes.pk/mag/2011/feb11/issue03/high_urea_prices_to_down.php

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