Kissan Board Urges Govt To Waive Off Farmers' Loans.

LAHORE -- Kissan Board Pakistan (KBP) PresiAdent Chaudhry Shaukat Ali Chadhar, after meeting a five-member delAegation of farmers from Balochistan, called upon the government here on Friday to waive off loans of rain and flood-hit farmers of the country.

The delegation was led by KisAsan Board Balochistan President Mir Rasheed. The delegation apprised Chaudhry Shaukat Ali about the problems farmers are facing due to recent rains and floods.

Chadhar said that recent floods had badly affected the agricultural economy, which was already facing problems due to increased prices of fertilizers, electricity, petroleum products and gas. Standing crops on an area of 400,000 acres of land in Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber PakhAtunkhwa, Sindh and Azad Kashmir had badly been damaged.

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