HYDERABAD, April 8: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture president Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah on Sunday demanded an end to water rotation programme and urged the government to make public the aims and objectives of its Vision 2030.

Mr Shah who was addressing a meeting of the chamber said that it was the duty of the Sindh government to inform people about its Vision 2030 and said that the chamber would support the vision if it was in the the interest of the province and would be in the forefront of its opposition if it was the other way around.

The meeting expressed serious concern over sudden rise in the prices of DAP fertiliser and its black-marketing and said that as against the official fixed price of Rs812 per bag the fertiliser was being sold at Rs1,400 a bag in the black-market.

The meeting urged the government to ensure sale of DAP in the open market at fixed rates and noted that the traders were not ready to buy wheat from the growers at the official price of Rs425 per 40 kilogramme. The government should direct the food department to purchase wheat directly from the growers, the meeting demanded.

The meeting criticised the introduction of water rotation programme in Tando Allahyar district during the summer season and said that it had subjected the growers and livestock owners to suffer great problems.

Mir Murad Ali Khan Talpur, Akhund Ghulam Mohammad Siddiqui, Qazi Abdul Majeed and Agha Nasrullah attended the meeting.