HYDERABAD: Sugar mills to start crushing from 7th
HYDERABAD, Nov 2: Arrangements have been made by sugar mills for crushing of sugarcane from November 7. This was stated by a four-member delegation of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (Sindh zone) at a meeting with Sindh agriculture secretary Mahkumddin Qadri in Karachi on Thursday.
In a statement issued here on Thursday, a spokesman for the Agriculture Information said that the delegation informed that the mills had made necessary arrangements for cane crushing.
He said the secretary agriculture had told the delegation that there was enough sugarcane during the current season and its quality was reported to be good and its early crushing would benefit farmers, sugar mill owners and consumers.
He said that it was in the interest of sugar mills and sugar industry in Sindh that mills start operation in time and growers were paid agreed price.
The Sindh cane commissioner also attended the meeting.
WHEAT PRODUCTION: The director-general of Sindh Agriculture Extension, Mr Naeem Korejo, has said that a campaign for wheat productivity enhancement has been launched in Sindh to achieve production target of 2.777 million tons from an area of 0.917 million hectares.
Speaking at a meeting about wheat production strategy with experts at his office on Thursday, he said that this year a number of incentives had been announced in time to motivate farmers to grow more wheat with focus on achieving more yield per hectare.
The incentives included reduction of prices of phosphatic and potash fertilizer upto Rs250 per bag, enhancement of wheat support price from Rs415 to Rs425 per maund, easy production loans through one-window scheme, precision land-levelling and water management programmes.
The director-general said that wheat production strategy for this year consisted of timely wheat sowing, availability of high yield quality seed varieties, timely availability and supply of fertilizers, balanced use of fertilizers, increased use of weedicides, increased loan facilities, proper use of irrigation water and dissemination about production technologies.
CELLPHONES: Hyderabad Sarraf and Jewellers Group has demanded that the chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority take notice of growing number of complaints from the subscribers about poor and faulty service of cellular mobile phone companies specially Mobilink, Warid, Ufone, Telenor and Paktel.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the head of group’s telecommunication and telephone committee, Mustafa Khan Abbasi, said that the companies had subjected thousands of their cellphone subscribers to mental torture and financial losses.
The group and the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry had time and again complained about the problem but all their pleas fell on deaf ears.
He urged the PTA chairman to take notice of the subscribers’ grievances and direct the companies to improve their performance.