LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab President Mian Manzoor Wattoo, criticising the PML-N government, has said that the PM’s package for farmers is just a lollipop for them, adding that the growers are not even getting the cost price for their products.
He maintained that the farmers are devastated economically due to the losses inflicted by the fifth successive wheat crops, solely attributed to the anti-farmers policy of the PML-N government.
This he said in a statement issued on Saturday that due to anti-farmers policies of the present government, the growers had been continuously facing losses, and agriculture economy had completely destroyed. He demanded that the government should abandon its anti-farmers policies. The government is pushing the farmers to a kamikaze situation, he lamented.
He said that the growers are not in a position to fulfil their family needs, and they had no resources to send their children to school. While raising a question about the fair distribution of Farmers Package, he alleged that the government firstly rewarded a very small amount to farmers and spent billions of rupees on two metro projects.
