Govt urged to withdraw decision regarding conversion of cold storages connections.

LAHORE -- Central Chairman of All Pakistan Cold Storage Association (APCSA) Rehman Aziz Chan urged the government to withdraw the decision of converting industrial connections of cold storages to commercial tariff.

Chairing the APCSA meeting here on Thursday, he said that the motors installed in the cold stores were registered as industrial entity.

He argued that this decision would increase the price of stored items by Rs 2.5 per kilogram, adding that prices of vegetables and fruit would increase and farmers would not store vegetables and fruit.

Mian Rehman Aziz Chan said that in terms of population in Pakistan, cold storages were already many times less in number. He said that about two million tons of...