Farmers urge govt to fix wheat, sugarcane prices

Farmers urge govt to fix wheat, sugarcane prices

HYDERABAD - The Sindh Abadgar Board has deplored that the agricultural deregulation policy adopted by the provincial government for the last 2 years has been continuously harming-wheat and sugarcane growers, causing financial losses of tens of billions of rupees to their economy.

Pakistan: Sindh farmers demand sugarcane price support as input costs rise

At a general council meeting in Hyderabad led by Chairman Mahmood Nawaz Shah, the Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) urged authorities to set support prices at Rs 525 per 40 kg for sugarcane. The agricultural group highlighted that sharp increases in production costs alongside weak crop prices have severely squeezed farmers’ profit margins, according to a […] ChiniMandi