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Corporate Farming
Corporate farming plan opposed
MULTAN (September 14, 2002) : The Punjab Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (PCMKF) has strongly condemned the proposal to introduce agriculture corporate farming (CAF), arguing that it will strengthen the US multi-national corporation.
The PCMKP President, Syed Azeem, talking to newsmen here, claimed that the proposed CAF system would provide opportunities to the US multi-national corporations to strengthen their grip on the socio-political environment of the country.
Besides, it would also change the status of tenants from agriculture labour to "slavery", he said, adding that it would also help the feudal lords to "corporatise" their big land-holdings, depriving the tenants of their rights under the 1997 Tenancy Act.
He further said that the CAF negated the concept of agriculture reforms, added that the introduction of mechanised farming would increase unemployment on the one hand and reduce the fertility of lands on the other.
News by Dr. Khalid Shouq
from Pakistan
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