In the name of Green Pakistan plan and corporate farming, lands are being taken away from farmers, press conference of Farooq Tariq, Baba Latif Ansari and Mehr Ghulam Abbas.
Will not vacate land, we are ready to fight, reject corporate farming, farmers
Lahore (94 News City Reporter) Farooq Tariq of Pakistan Kisan Coordination Committee, Anjuman Muzareen Punjab and Pakistan Labor Qaumi Movement, Baba Latif Ansari and Maher Ghulam Abbas have said in a press conference that agricultural reforms should be done in the whole of Pakistan, land should be given to farmers, landless farmers, agricultural laborers and small farmers. We are also fighting a legal battle against these injustices in Lahore High Court and Supreme Court. We are with the farmers, farmers and farmers of Sindh and all over Pakistan.
He said that Green Pakistan project across Pakistan (Green Pakistan Initiative) And in the name of corporate farming, all those government lands on which farmers have been living for more than a hundred years are being given to private companies. Until now 4.8 Million acres of land have been identified.
According to the details so far 0.9 Million (About 10 100,000 acres) Acres of land have been allotted in Punjab 811,619 Acres, in Sindh 52,713 Acre, in Baluchistan 47,606 And in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 74,140 Acres of land included. Corporate farming has started in Cholistan and so far two lakh acres of land has been contracted. And in all this, the lands of farmers, farmers and small farmers are being taken away.
Muhammad Nagar Seed Farm in Arifwala apart from Okara in Punjab 27 At present, 1000 hectares of land has been given to private companies. And this series is being started in other forms as well. Orders have also been issued by Deputy Commissioners and state agencies to vacate the lands of various farms. Farmers are being threatened to vacate the land as soon as possible otherwise the police will carry out operations and actions. But the series of resistance against it has also started. A similar incident took place two weeks ago at Muhammad Nagar Seed Farm near Arifwala. When a heavy force of police arrived there to take possession of this land and 700 More than 100,000 farmers blocked the way of the police and faced fierce resistance. In the end, the police were forced to go back without taking possession, but the farmers did not retreat.
General Secretary of Pakistan Kisan Coordination Committee Farooq Tariq said that “حکومت زمینی اصلاحات متعارف کرانے کے بجائے کارپوریٹ فارمنگ کے ذریعے جاگیردارانہ نظام کو مضبوط کرنے کی کوشش کر رہی ہے اور یہ اس پالیسی کو چھوٹے کسانوں اور مزارعین اور بے زمین کسانوں کے خلاف قرار دیا۔” The Pakistan Kisan Liaison Committee says this is the same corporate farming initiative that the government has been trying to introduce since the era of General Pervez Musharraf, but with new terms like attracting foreign investment and creating millions of jobs, which are all pretentious. Chairman of Pakistan Labor National Movement, Baba Latif Ansari, said that the Ayub-era green revolution has damaged the lands and their productivity for a long time by introducing chemical fertilizers and pesticides and now this corporate farming is being presented as the second green revolution. Pakistan Farmers' Coordinating Government demands that these lands should be given to the landless farmers to improve national food security, it is their right.
Maher Ghulam Abbas, president of Anjuman Muzareen Punjab, said that only to please the capitalist class, they are trying to take away our right from us illegally. 100 Our elders have been living here for more than a year and then these lands were barren, uninhabited and desolate, which our elders put their blood and sweat and plowed on animals to make them arable, and today all kinds of dirty tactics are being used to occupy the built lands in a cruel way.
