Growers seek minister's help over sugar mills' closure today.

HYDERABAD -- The Sindh ChamAber of Agriculture (SCA) has described a Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) decision to close mills as a violation of Sindh Sugar Factories Control Act and demanded of the government to impose ban on such mills.

According to a SCA press release issued here on Tuesday, a delegation of the SCA led by its president Syed Miran Mohammad Shah and general secretary Zahid Bhurgari met Sindh Agriculture Minister Ismail Rahu in Karachi and briefed him about PSMA's 'tyranny', locust attack situation and other matters related to growers.

The minister assured the delegation that the Sindh government would give preference to such matters of growers.

The chamber president informed the minister that 24 sugar mills and the PSMA had decided to close crushing from Wednesday and said that action should be taken against those mills for violation of the act and they should be banned completely.

He said the Sindh government should take its own initiatives to control locusts instead of depending on the federal government because the situation was getting serious.

He said that sprays should be immediately done in all affected areas, otherwise...