LARKANA: Shortage of Urea continues to hit tillers very hard as they are running from pillar to post to get the required bags for their wheat crop.

In this connection when President, Larkana Chamber of Agriculture (LCA), Syed Sirajul Oliya Rasdi, was contacted on Thursday he said that they have already held a meeting today which was also specially participated by Hari Abadgar Board’s Shoukat Chandio.

He said that rates of DAP has been 400% increased, unavailability and black marketing of urea, enhanced electricity rates for tube wells and increased prices of diesel will reduce the production of wheat due to which food shortage is expected in the future He said Pakistan is an agricultural country and agriculture is the backbone of our economy but due to incompetence and sheer negligence of the government this vital sector is taking last sighs.

Rashdi said agricultural machinery, seeds, agricultural pesticides and other factors have ruined farmers and growers. He said it is also said that mini-budget is about to be thrown like a bomb over already poverty-stricken growers in which it is claimed that subsidy given to the tillers will be withdrawn and more tax will be raised. He said that such acts will only destroy the poor farmers who are already facing massive inflation. He said that rates of agricultural produce have not been increased as compared to the prices of other essential items which have been enhanced rapidly in the recent past.

He said that the Prime Minister should take personal interest and impose an agricultural emergency, or else he feared farmers across the country would unite and take to streets like India. Shoukat Chandio said that it is high time now that farmers of the entire country should unite together and start a movement against the fertilizer mafia.