Press Releases-Ignoring agriculture sector amount to suicide, says Mian Zahid Hussain.

Chairman of National Business Group of FPCCI, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum and All Karachi Industrial Alliance, and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on Monday said the agriculture sector is being ignored since decades and further closing eyes to the problems of this sector will amount to suicide.

The continued fall of agriculture has added to the problems of masses and it has put the integrity of the country at stake, he said.

Mian Zahid Hussain said that sixty percent population and the majority of exports are lined to agriculture while hundred percent population is dependent on this sector for their food needs.

Talking to the business community, the veteran business leader said that agriculture is the largest employment providing sector and its plunge is hitting production and exports as well.

Masses are uneasy over food insecurity while billions are being spent on import of food items which should not be an issue in the country having the best canal system in the world, he observed.

Apart from the apathy on the part of policymakers, the agriculture sector is also facing problems like the increased role of loan...