Many farmers were pushed and arrested by police in different parts of the province on Monday, especially in Lahore and south Punjab. The farmers took to the streets because they felt like no one was listening to their requests for help. Wheat prices have fallen a lot in the market, way below the set price…
Khalid Hussain Bath, chairman of Kissan Ittehad, declared that farmers would hold a sit-in on April 19 due to low wheat support prices. Our reporter show that the government had imported $2.2 million worth of wheat, which remained unused while local growers struggled to sell their produce. Instead of buying from local farmers in Punjab,…
Punjab’s Kisan Ittehad, a farmers’ union, is gearing up for widespread protests across the province following Eidul Fitr. They are slamming the government for setting a low support price for wheat. Chaudhry Khalid Hussain Bath, the Chairman of Kisan Ittehad, has strongly criticized the government’s decision to keep the wheat support price stagnant at Rs3,900…