Govt gas policy would create fertilizers crisis in the country: former Member FBR, Sarfraz Ahmed Khan

Lahore: Secretary, Jamaat e Islami, Economic Committee and a former Member, FBR, Sarfraz Ahmed Khan, has said the government ad-hoc policy to run power plants by gas after suspending gas supply to fertilizer plants would create serious shortage of chemical fertilizers, especially Urea for the next Kharif crop  causing a huge loss to the farmers.

In a statement here on Friday, he said that the shortage of chemical fertilizer for rice crop would cause cut in cultivation of rice and raise rice price.

Sarfraz Ahmed Khan said that the government had stopped gas supply to fertiliser factories at a time when it was most essential for the Kharif crop. He said even if the government decided to import fertilizer, it would taken from four to five months in reaching the input to the growers through the distributers whereas there was hardly one a half month time in the start of the rice cultivation. Such ad hoc policies of the rulers had pushed the countries agriculture and industry to the brink of ruin, he added.