President Farmers Union Khalid Mehmood Khokhar's Analysis on Wheat Crisis
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President Farmers Union Khalid Mehmood Khokhar's Analysis on Wheat Crisis
President Farmers Union Khalid Mehmood Khokhar's Analysis on Wheat Crisis
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00:00 You have heard the Chief Minister's statement, you have heard the statement of the Parliament,
00:06 especially from the PPP and the rest of the Sunni Council members,
00:11 they are also raising this issue on a daily basis.
00:13 What is the situation on the ground?
00:15 I am not able to understand what is the situation.
00:17 Has wheat been sold? Has the purchase been made?
00:21 In the meantime, the Aarti has been taken.
00:24 Is the Punjab government talking? Are you talking?
00:27 And what kind of news is coming?
00:30 Thank you very much.
00:31 The first thing is that today's wheat rate has gone from Rs. 2300 to Rs. 2400.
00:35 The farmer's production cost is also not being paid.
00:39 Now all these people, all the politicians who are talking about this,
00:44 politicians need one thing, that they sit together in the assembly and make agricultural policy.
00:50 The implementation of the Agricultural Emergency is extremely important in Pakistan at the moment.
00:55 The population we are increasing every year,
00:57 the population we are adding every year to New Zealand or Singapore,
01:01 according to that, there is no growth in our agriculture.
01:03 Even today we are 10 to 12 percent.
01:05 Mr. Khobar, it is a good thing, but tell us about today's crisis in Punjab,
01:08 because many people think that there is a lot of injustice.
01:11 I am coming to the crisis.
01:13 Look, the rate of today's wheat has now been damaged to only Rs. 5 to 6 billion in the wheat field.
01:21 In this way, the farmer has suffered losses in corn and cotton.
01:25 Now the loss to the country is that the next two crops to come on the wheat field are cotton and rice.
01:31 Both crops are going to be exported to you.
01:33 If the farmer does not have money, then the next crop will have a bad impact on him.
01:38 Look, your biggest import is cotton.
01:41 If you put the export of last year, the export was of 31.5 billion dollars,
01:45 it had only 20 billion dollars of cotton.
01:47 Do you want to end your export?
01:50 Do you want to end the agriculture from Pakistan?
01:53 Look, if the farmer does not have money, how will he spend on the next crop?
01:57 The second thing is that when the farmer sowed wheat, he sowed on the government's commitment.
02:01 The government had set a minimum support price.
02:04 If the government wanted to get out of it, then the government should have done it slowly,
02:08 instead of coming at once, in time, and by the last minute,
02:11 the government did not even announce that we are not buying.
02:14 This is the biggest reason.
02:16 The government should have announced it earlier that we are not buying.
02:20 Yes, Mr. Chaudhary.
02:22 Look, this is not right.
02:24 Today, the Minister of Punjab, Mr. Maryam Nawaz,
02:28 has announced outside Lahore that nothing is happening,
02:33 there is no wheat crop, we will give 400 billion to the people in the next four months.
02:38 Do you want to burn wheat or throw it in the sea?
02:43 You decide for yourself, Mr. Khokhar.
02:46 Look, we will burn wheat because we do not even have a place to keep it.
02:52 We are selling it at different prices, whatever rate we are getting, we are selling it at that rate.
02:57 We are helpless. This is the truth.
02:59 I can say with all my emotions that we are in so much pain right now,
03:04 the farmers of Pakistan and Punjab.
03:07 The government had made a commitment, the government had to honor that commitment.
03:12 The government should have told us that we are not buying, we will do whatever we want.
03:16 They should have told us before the cash.
03:18 They have said it today.
03:19 Mr. Khalid, tell us which government, which ministers had made a commitment,
03:26 if they had made a commitment, was it a verbal commitment or a writing commitment?
03:30 We have not seen anything like this yet, if there is anything, then produce it and tell us.
03:34 We will broadcast it on television, we will tweet it, we will post it on social media,
03:39 and we will tell the government, is it just a verbal commitment?
03:43 I am not talking verbally.
03:47 Yes, yes, Hassan Yousuf.
03:49 The minimum support price is 3900, number one.
03:53 Number two, the government had run a campaign in October-November,
03:57 that we should burn wheat, we should burn wheat, because the government was showing that
04:02 last year, 24 of our women were martyred in the line of wheat.
04:06 We should burn more wheat so that we do not have a problem with wheat,
04:10 and poor people do not die.
04:11 But you see, there was a military line in the three villages.
04:14 The atrocity with us was that when the international rate was double than 20 years,
04:19 at that time we did not get the international rate.
04:21 When the international rate was reduced by one year,
04:23 at that time they say that the international rate has been reduced.
04:25 Sir, is there a agreement?
04:26 My question is this, Hassan, let me ask you, is there an agreement or not?
04:30 The government never has an agreement with the farmers.
04:33 No, you have an agreement, the farmers have an agreement, I am the one who is in the agreement.
04:36 And the rate has been fixed, the government has fixed the rate.
04:38 I know the rate, I know it.
04:40 The government says that it will not give the rate.
04:41 They give the rate and then you purchase it from them, I know that.
04:44 I am just asking if there is a guarantee for that.
04:47 What is your demand immediately from the Punjab government,
04:50 they are saying that they will give the money through the farmer's card later.
04:53 If you are asked that the Punjab government should do this work in the next week or 10 days,
04:58 then we will improve a little, the farmers will be a little better.
05:02 Not in 8-10 days, I think in the next day, the government should buy from the genuine farmers.
05:10 Now you see, this is unfair to the farmers, they are purchasing PASCO, the food department is not purchasing.
05:16 Now in my district, Khanewal, there are three food departments, one is PASCO,
05:20 one is being purchased, three are not.
05:22 Now are those three not Pakistani?
05:24 And what is happening in one, there is also the extreme level of corruption,
05:28 I have not seen so much corruption in my life.
05:30 Absolutely right Mr. Khokhar, your opinion is being said that
05:36 as soon as possible, the purchase of wheat should be done in Punjab.