BADIN: Growers took to the streets in Badin on a call given by the Sindh Abadgar Tanzeem (SAT) while Farmers Organisations Council (FOC) and several other organisations organised a demonstration in Mirpurkhas on Tuesday against an acute shortage of irrigation water and denial of suitable rate to cane growers for their crop.

A large number of growers from different areas of Badin district took part in the rally which started from the bypass linking Tando Bago, Badin city and Khoski and ended outside Badin press club.

Speaking to the participants, SAT chairman Pir Fayyaz Ali Rashdi said the government must realise that the water shortage persisting for months together was ruining cultivable lands of the district while denial of the sugar cane price fixed by the high court was devastating growers. Sindh Chamber of Agriculture president Qabool Mohammed Khatian also joined the rally.

In Mirpurkhas, scores of growers took part in the demonstration organised by the FOC, Sindh Agriculture Research Council (SARC), Tail-end Abadgar Association (TAA), Sindh Abadgar Organisation (SAO) and Sindh Abadgar Hari Ittehad (SAHI) to highlight the same issues.

Published in Dawn, February 7th, 2018