Farmers’ announcement of protest in front of Punjab Assembly

Due to the rains in south Punjab since April 18, the crop cultivated on 6.4 lakh acres has been badly affected.

The Punjab government was supposed to start wheat procurement from April 22. Due to the delay in wheat procurement, farmers were forced to sell their cultivated wheat on the streets of the city.

Chairman Kisan Etihad Haseeb Anwar demanded that the government should ensure the purchase of wheat at its fixed support price.

Haseeb Anwar says that with this demand, he will stage a dharna outside the Punjab Assembly on April 29, and will sit until the demand is fulfilled.

It should be noted that before the start of wheat harvest this year, the government had four million tons of wheat reserves.

In addition, during the caretaker government, 3.4 million tons of wheat worth one billion dollars was imported from abroad by the private sector, which is 36% more than the same period of the previous financial year.