KBP to launch protest from Sep 10

Our Staff Reporter MULTAN - Kissan Board Pakistan (KBP) Secretary General Malik Ramzan Rohari declared on Thursday that the board was going to launch a protest drive against shortage of fertilizer at district level from September 10. Addressing a news conference here at JI office, he said that the country was faced with serious gas shortage but despite this situation it was being burnt on the roads. He said that the country would need to import only 12 percent fertilizer if 100 percent gas supply to the fertilizer factories was restored. He said that the fertilizer companies were ready to supply Urea at Rs925 per bag but it was subject to full supply of gas to them. He pointed out that the imported urea cost the farmer Rs3,000 per bag which was out of their purchasing power. He said that the farmers were at their wits end and they would do a long march to encircle the Punjab Assembly after district protest.

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