Kissan Ittehad President calls on Khusro Bakhtiar in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: President Pakistan Kissan Ittehad, Khalid Mehmood Khokhar called on Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research, Khusro Bakhtiar in Islamabad today (Friday).

During the meeting, matters pertaining to agriculture, farmers’ problems, cotton crops, and electricity supply to farmers came under discussion.

Khusro Bakhtiar assured him that the government is committed to providing full support to the farmers to increase agricultural productivity.

He said that the price of 50 Kg Urea bag has been reduced by 375 rupees to provide relief to the farmers.

He further said that in line with the vision of the government, Urea will now be available at 1665 rupees per 50 kg.

Federal Minister said that development and modernization of agriculture sector is a high priority of the Government which is evident from the initiation of various agriculture programmes.