Kissan Ittehad chairman Khalid Hussain Bath said on Wednesday that the farmers will stage a sit-in in #Pakistan over low wheat support prices on April 19, a news report said.
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Khalid Hussain Bath said that the government has imported wheat worth USD 2.2 million, which has not been used yet. However, he added that local growers were not able to sell their crops. #PakistanCrisis
He said that the government, instead of buying wheat from local farmers in #Punjab, imported it. Khalid said that farmers had stocks of wheat with no buyers while the flour mills were buying wheat for Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 3000 per 40 kg bag.