KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has asked growers’ organisations and agriculture department to prepare a PC-I on fixation of support price for cotton and paddy crops, its implications for the government and socioeconomic impact on growers’ community.

He said while presiding over a meeting to discuss the proposal for fixing the support price here on Monday that before putting the proposal into practice “we also need to coordinate with other province instead of taking the decision in isolation.”

He said the government was making serious efforts to give adequate price to growers for their crops in addition to providing them other incentives. It had not only benefitted growers but also yielded bumper crop in the outgoing year, he said.

He said: “We are encouraging the agriculture sector because it provides maximum income and employment opportunities to people of rural as well as urban areas, besides providing food security to the province”.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2014