Growers Organization Demands Special Agriculture Package In Annual Budget

President Sindh Abadgar Itehad Nawab Zubair Talpur has demanded of the Sindh Government to announce special agriculture package in the annual budget in order to facilitate the growers and agriculture of the province

HYDERABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st May, 2019 ) :President Sindh Abadgar Itehad Nawab Zubair Talpur has demanded of the Sindh Government to announce special agriculture package in the annual budget in order to facilitate the growers and agriculture of the province.

Addressing the news conference here at Hyderabad Press Club on Tuesday, he said ineffective policy adopted by the Sindh Government is destroying the agriculture sectors 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 avoided to announce special agriculture package, the Sindh Abadgar Itehad would stage sit in and protest for the acceptance of demands.

He said that 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 that price of tractor had reached to Rs. 2.1 million as compared to last year price of Rs. 1.7 million.