LAHORE: September 20,2022 :²As Pakistan faces the worst kind of food crisis , Pakistan Kissan Ittehad is marching on Islamabad on Wednesday to press the government to accept its demands.
Pakistan Kissan Ittehad chairman , Khalid Khokar , will lead the Kissan rally .
Speaking to NEWSMAN by phone on Tuesday, Khalid Khokhar said ” Kissan from all over Pakistan are coming to Islamabad for protest”.
Pakistan’s Kissan (farmers) are in serious crisis as in the last few years they are not meeting the input cost of their produce. They are demanding of the government to pay heed to their problems so they could aggressively work on fields to enhance their per acre yield to address Pakistan’s food security issues.
Pakistan being a fifth populated country with over 220 people is facing serious food secarcity. The World Food Programme (WFO) and many other local and international organisations are warning for the government of Pakistan of severe food crisis if its crops yield remained at the current level .
Pakistan’s per acre yield is the lowest in the region for only one simple reason that the government lack a progressive strategy to help kissans improve per acre productivity .
Pakistan has the highest per acre production in the region and was a food sufficient country till the end of ,60s . Then its consecutive government ignored the agriculture sector which consequently resulted in downward trend in agro production.
The farmers of Pakistan kept on working in unfavourable circumstances to somehow meet it’s food needs .
But with continuous rise in power rates, huge jumps in input cost and low support prices of the produces put the Kissan into an unmanageable crisis .
In an invitation message to the media , Khalid Khokar , president Pakistan kissan Ittehad said on Tuesday
Pakistan Kissan Ittehad’s Protest March is being held in Islamabad on September 21,2022.
Pakistan Kissan Ittehad’s thousands of Kissan will gather tomorrow at Chakri interchange then will proceed to infront of Parliament House Islamabad.
Mr Khokhar said
Kissan are protesting for their right of survival and food security of Pakistan as due to unbearable price hike in fertilizer, Electricity bills and other agriculture inputs which has made agriculture non- viable.
Kissan’s protest is a logical and make sense . Pakistan is paying huge foreign exchange on import of wheat, pulses, cotton and so on ,but its not paying reasonable price of produce to the local Kissan
Shahbaz government should listen to Kissan’s demands and accept them as they can encourage Kissan to work hard and turn Pakistan into a food sufficient country rather than importing one.
