Farmers leader blasts “Increasing taxes on agriculture sector”

Pakistan Oct, 28 2024
Farmers leader blasts “Increasing taxes on agriculture sector”
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MULTAN: Pakistan Kissan Ittehad has blasted imposition of “Taxes on agriculture sector on demand of IMF”.

President Farmers Alliance Khalid Mehmood Khokhar addressing news conference here alleged that rulers living luxurious life over loans borrowed from International Monetary Fund. He apprehended that agriculture sector will be destroyed with imposition of taxes and demanded declaration of an agriculture emergency. He said destruction of agriculture will collapse country’s economy. He asked rulers to give attention to farming sector. He demanded of government to fix support price of wheat and hold meetings with regard to cultivation of wheat crop. He urged for slashing urea prices down.

“He warned of wheat crisis, if government failed to give attention to crop”. “We are an agro-based country, still we import around 10 to 12 billion dollars farm commodities from abroad,” he said. He said that climate change has adversely affected crops yield, around 54 percent drop in cotton production has badly affected farming community. He said government offering nine billion rupees subsidy on tractors, while imposing 22 billion rupees taxes, which has pushed tractor industry on verge of collapse, “This year only 3,000 tractors have been sold,” he added.

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