Farmers demands to include tobacco in provincial subjects list.

SWABI -- :Local farmers organized a public gathering to urge the federal government for declaring tobacco production a provincial subject and the price for this season should be fixed Rs5000 per kg. The farmers expressed their displeasure over the construction of housing societies on agriculture lands and asked the government to offer incentives for dairy products, poultry and fish farming sector.

The public gathering was organized by Ittehad Kashtkaran (Farmers) here Tuesday demanding that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa should be allowed to, under the 18th Constitutional amendment, to deal in matters relating to tobacco crop and other provincial subjects.

Chairman Ittehad Kashtkaran, Arif Ali, while addressing the occasion, demanded ban on construction of new housing societies on agriculture land and special incentives for dairy, poultry and fish farming...