Team To Visit Buner For Assessment Of Losses To Tomato Growers: Minister
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published December 12, 2018 | 09:52 PM
Minister for Food Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Qalandar Lodhi Wednesday said that a team would soon visit district Buner to assess the losses incurred to grower of tomato crops owing to a disease.
Responding to a call attention notice of Awami National Party's (ANP) parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak, he told the KP assembly that the team would assess the losses and as per its report, the government would take measures to facilitate the growers.
Earlier, Sardar Hussain Babak on his call attention notice urged for payment of compensation to farmers on account of losses they suffered due to a disease that damaged tomato crop in Chamla Buner.
He said that huge tomato crop stretching over hundreds of kanal land got infected by harmful insects incurring millions of rupees' loss to poor growers.
Parliamentary Leader ANP Sardar Hussain Babak demanded that the experts of agriculture shouldbe sent to the area to assess damages caused to the crop.
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