SIALKOT, April 28: Wheat growers from Zafarwal and surrounding areas are facing difficulties to sell their produce in the absence of any procurement centre.

Since the food department has not set up any sale point in their region, growers have to cover a distance of more than 30km to sell wheat at the nearest procurement center established in Narowal.

The growers said that they had to bear additional expenses of transporting their produce.

In a press release issued here, the perturbed wheat growers, including Allah Rakha, Bashir Ahmad, Sultan Mehmood and Syed Iqbal Shah, urged the food department to facilitate them by establishing a procurement center in Zafarwal.

GUTTED: The standing wheat crop on seven acres and a harvesting machine were gutted on Monday after a fire broke out in the fields of farmers Mukhtar Ahmad and Mahmood Sindhu in Bharthaanwala village, Daska.