February 4, 2002	Monday	Ziqa’ad 20, 1422

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MIRPURKHAS, Feb 3: Former Federal Minister for Agriculture, Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur has said the country was being pushed to an agriculture disaster in the coming months, as the mismanagement and ill-planning in the irrigation sector will lead to drought.

The PPP leader and member of the Central Executive Committee said that despite contributing enormously to the country’s economy, the farming community had been subjected to severe economic thrashing through artificial disasters, he said in a Press statement here on Sunday.

Agriculture is the core of our economy. Targeting such segment and squeezing them economically meant victimizing the agricultural sector, the PPP leader pointed out.

He recalled that the government had been repeatedly saying that after April there would be a shortage of water even for drinking purpose, which was prime period for Kharif cultivation.

The PPP leader said the irrigation policy needed rationalization for the benefit of growers, who formed majority of the population and supported democracy as the form of governance.

He called upon the government to re-evaluate its policies and prevent the effects of water shortage during the coming months in an equitable and justifiable manner.