MIRPURKHAS: Jan 17: Pakistan People’s Party has announced that it supports the strike called by growers and farmers against sugarcane crisis called for Jan 21 and exhorted the party workers to participate in the protests of the growers.

The PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and CEC member Nawab Yousuf Talpur, MNA, expressed solidarity with the growers and farmers of Sindh who have been deprived of their due share from the national economy through dubious government actions, they said in a joint statement here on Friday.

They said the government had allowed the sugar mills to begin crushing season two months late and now again it has tacitly allowed the millers not to raise the agreed price of sugarcane, which is Rs 43 per 40 kg.

The PPP leaders said the government was creating artificial crisis in agricultural sector which would create man-made miseries to the people of Sindh. They said depriving the gro-wers of the minimum support prices would finally hit farm sector.

They said it was unfortunate that the agriculture sector, which providing living to 75 per cent population of the country, was being pushed against the wall under a systematic manner. However, they said the PPP would not leave the growers, farmers and other stake-holders of the sector in lurk and support their just struggle.