SUKKUR, April 7: The growers of Sukkur region staged a protest demonstration on the third consecutive day against the non-issuance of agricultural loan to small growers by the branches of Allied Bank Limited, Sukkur, in front of the ABL regional office on Sunday.

The protesters said that they had also called on Zila Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on April 3 and Naib Zila Nazim Iqbal Dawood on April 5 and apprized them that the bank was not issuing the agricultural loans to them despite the clear instruction of the governor of State Bank of Pakistan to extend loan to the growers.

They said that they also told them that the bank was not ready to renew the loans and was pressurizing the growers to repay hundred per cent loan.

They said that the chief of the recovery division was reluctant to meet them. They alleged the recovery division chief of taking revenge from the growers of upper Sindh.

They said that the ABL, Sukkur region, issue agricultural loans of Rs270,000,000 every year but this year they were denied the loan.

The said that if the loan was not given, thousands of acres of the agricultural land would remain uncultivated this year.