KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the provincial government will not give any subsidy on sugarcane.
He said this while presiding over a meeting of the Agriculture Department to discuss the new sugarcane price and review overall cane crop. He also directed the provincial Agriculture Department to work out an acceptable sugarcane price for the growers and millers.
Chief Secretary Siddique Memon, Principal Secretary to CM Alamuddin Bullo, Secretary of Agriculture Shahid Gulzar Shaikh, Secretary of Finance Sohail Rajpput and Cane Commissioner Agha Zaheer. Adviser to CM on Law, Murtaza Wahab, Secretary of Law, Mir Mohammad Shaikh, and Advocate-General Abdul Fattah Malik also attended the meeting.
The chief minister said that last year there were differences between growers and millers on the issue of sugarcane price. “This year I want you to settle this issue amicably. This time the Sindh government will not give any subsidy on its price,” he said categorically.
It is worth mentioning here that the Sindh government last year for the first time provided subsidy to the sugarcane growers while the government used to provide subsidy to wheat growers.
