HYDERABAD, Dec 14: The Sindh Abadgar Board has requested the federal food and agriculture minister for immediate supply of 200,000 kilograms of sunflower seed for the current season.
In a communication addressed to the minister, Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind, SAB president Abdul Majeed Nizamani said the sowing of sunflower would continue till the end of February but there was a shortage of seed.
He said this year, sunflower would be cultivated on 175,000 acres, compared to 65,000 acres last year.
He said due to the increased cultivation of sunflower, farmers would get rid of the blackmailing of sugar mill owners and problems of water shortage, waterlogging and salinity would also be resolved to a great extend. Not only this, but the government would be able to save billions of rupees it spent on the import of edible oil, he further said.
IRO-2002: Pakistan Wapda Employees Pegham Union workers held a demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday against the Industrial Relation Ordinance-2002 and privatization of Jamshoro Thermal Power Station.
The protesters also raised slogans against the shifting of the Wapda hospital from Latifabad to Jamshoro. Speaking on the occasion, union president S. D. Saqib and general-secretary Eijaz Shaikh said the Presidential Ordinance-2000 and the IRO-2002 had helped the industrialists usurped rights of workers. They said the privatization of power stations was not in the interest of the country.
