LAHORE: A politico-religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), spokesperson on economic affairs Sarfraz Ahmed Khan said that the federal government’s move to cut gas supply fertiliser plants would create major loss to farmers due to severe shortage of chemical fertilisers.
JI’s prominent leader and ex-member of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Sarfraz Ahmed Khan, said the government ad-hoc policy would create large-scale shortage of chemical fertilisers for the next Kharif crop.
In a statement here, he said that the shortage of chemical fertiliser for rice crop would bring down cultivation of rice and raise its price, adding to the problems of the masses.
Sarfraz Ahmed Khan said that the government had stopped gas supply to fertiliser factories at a time when it was most essential for the Kharif crop.
He said even if the government decided to import fertiliser, it would taken from four to five months in reaching the input to the growers through the distributors whereas there was hardly one a half month time in the start of the rice cultivation. Such ad-hoc policies of the rulers had pushed the countries agriculture and industry to the brink of ruin, he added.
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