After so many useless meetings with representatives of Federal and Provincial Governments, Pakistan Kissan Itehad will stage a protest on 14th February at Multan followed by in all districts and provincial and national capital cities. Animals, poultry, fish and farmers’ kids would be accompanying protest along with farmers.
Recent move of the government revoking GST ex-emption on agriculture inputs like maize hybrid seed, rice hybrid seed, vegetable seed, fodder seed, all local seeds, fish meal, animal feed, soyabean, raw cotton, benola, cotton seed oil, oil cakes, agri-culture machinery, Maize, fodder, soybean, fish meal, animal feed, poultry feed machinery will cre-ate problems for formers.
PKI stated that neither farmers nor their animal, poultry or fish get loans from IMF then why their lives are being made difficult on the basis of IMF conditions.
That’s why it is unique protest where farmers and their animals are participating to demonstrate that government has made life difficult for animals and fish by making expensive their feed.
Electricity Tariff of agriculture tube wells be fixed as one unit one rate of Rs. 5.35 per unit, FPA may be abolished from agriculture tube wells.
GST on hybrid maize seed, hybrid rice seed, im-ported oil seeds, soyabean, vegetable seed, agricul-ture machinery, raw cotton, benola, benola oil, oil cakes, ingredients of poultry feed, fish meal, must be withdrawn immediately.
Wheat support price be re-fixed at Rs. 2200 per 40kg considering new price hike of fertilizer, elec-tricity and diesel.
If these demand are not full filled immedeatly, PKI will demonstrate it power and protest march “Speechless Animals and Helpless Farmers” in Multan on 14th February and other districts of Pun-jab, Sindh KPK and Balochistan then in Lahore and Islamabad.