Pakistan Farmers Protest
Pakistan: Farmers demonstrate on Faisalabad-Multan road against non-availability of urea
Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan: Pirmahal farmers demonstrated and even blocked Faisalabad-Multan road in Pakistan on Tuesday against the non-availability of urea in the country.
The demonstrating farmers also closed the railway level crossing. Urea fertiliser is not available due to the strike of the fertiliser dealers and sellers, reports The Dawn.
The road witnessed a traffic jam for nearly one hour due to the protest.
The farmers told the media as quoted by The Dawn that the officials had asked them to reach the Pirmahal Grain Market where they would be sold fertiliser bags on the rates fixed by the government but they remained standing in a long queue for hours in vain.
They were later informed that the dealers had refused to end their strike and sell them fertiliser.
The farmers ended their protest after the agriculture department's assistant director and tehsil administration officials assured them that fertiliser bags would be supplied to them on the fixed rates from Wednesday, reports the Pak newspaper.
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