HYDERABAD, Jan 21: Leaders of the Sindh Hari Committee on Tuesday visited various villages to muster support for the ‘Save Sindh Agriculture Movement,’ which will be launched some time in February.

Areas, where they visited, included Tando Kaiser, Kisano Mori and Shaikh Bhirkiyo.

Speaking on the occasion, the president of the peasants committee, Azhar Jatoi, accused the rulers of looting Sindh’s resources as if it were an international orphanage.

The province, he said, was being deprived of its due share of water to irrigate lands in Punjab and the farmers in Sindh were being deprived of a reasonable prices for their crops.

Firewood, he said, was being sold at the rate of Rs100 per 40kg but sugarcane growers were not being paid anything above Rs40 per 40kg.

Urging the farmers to forge unity to wage a struggle for their rights, he said that feudal lords as well as the Mirs and Pirs were interested in ministries and were doing nothing for the farmers.

He said that the struggle would continue till the shelving of the Kalabagh dam and the Thal canal projects as well as the abolition of the feudal system.

Others, who spoke on the occasion, included Usman Laghari, Pandhi Khan Zaunar and Zameer Lashari.