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Article: Corporate farming to produce unemployment.
- Article from:
- The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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By RAMZAN CHANDIO KARACHI, July 21 (THE NATION): The agricultural experts, civil society activists, peasants and politicians expressed serious reservations over the Corporate Agriculture Farming (CAF) policy and condemned the PPP-led coalition government which had given nod to lease out six million acres land of country to Gulf-based multinationals. They further said that the CAF policy was approved in 2007 to allow the foreign investors to get thousand of acres of land on lease in country. The experts expressed these views at a consultative workshop on land grabbing and its impact on food, agriculture and small farmers organised by Shah Sachal Sami Welfare Association in ...
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