HYDERABAD:The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA), a group lobbying for the farmers, has lamented that the cotton growers
were being exploited by the middlemen who were paying them Rs.4,000 less than the government fixed price of Rs.8,500 per maund.
In a statement issued here on Sunday General Secretary of SCA Zahid
Hussain Bhurgari deplored that the cotton farmers were selling their
produce at the rate of Rs.10,000 per maund until over a week ago but
the price had been lowered by the middlemen to Rs.6,000.
He urged the Federal and the Sindh governments to take notice of the
financial exploitation of the farmers by the middlemen and the textile
mills.
“If this situation continues, the farmers sowing cotton in Sindh will
be financially destroyed,” he warned.
Bhurgari informed that the same cotton was being sold at the rate of
Rs.10,000 per maund in Sadiqabad district of Punjab which bordered
Sindh.
He urged the government to take action against the elements who were
manipulating the market for their personal narrow interests.