PESHAWAR: Adviser to Chief Minister on Finance Muzzammil Aslam on Saturday said that tractor sales across Pakistan had fallen to the lowest level in the past 20 years.
In a statement, he said that Punjab and Sindh were once the strongholds of agriculture, adding that 60 percent of the country’s population was linked to agriculture.
The finance adviser said that nothing was known about what happened to the tractors distributed with Maryam Nawaz’s photographs on them, and the farmer cards bearing her image also disappeared from the scene.
Muzzammil Aslam said that the livelihood of farmers has been snatched away and, at the hands of middlemen, wheat prices had reached historic high in the country. “The price of wheat has risen to 5,000, yet the government shows no concern for the issue,” he added.
He said the government remained engrossed in its private gatherings, and that during Shehbaz Sharif’s four-year term in office, the country faced a wheat crisis for the second time.
