RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: There was an urgent need to clamp agriculture emergency and move ahead with a rationale agriculture policy in line with the ground realities, said president of Mango Growers Cooperative Society Ltd, Zahid Hussain Gardezi.

He was of the view that with dwindling water resources and capitulating fertile agriculture lands to real estate mafia, future generation may face hunger more than poverty.

He said that the farmers and peasants in Pakistan who comprised more than half of the country’s population have no face value and are meted out ad hoc treatment to their problems.

A country where almost whole economy is derived through agriculture productivity, whose industry and exports are directly or indirectly associated with the toil of the farmers have never been looked after on priority by any government in Pakistan.