The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Monday said the poor quality of agricultural inputs are posing a major threat to farmers, their livestock and the general population consuming their products.
The agriculture and livestock sector is being destroyed because of substandard seeds, unhealthy pesticides and herbicides, it said.
Masses, farmers and livestock are suffering from various diseases due to hazardous agricultural inputs, therefore production and import of such products should be stopped immediately, said Chairman PEW Brigadier (retd) Aslam Khan.
He said that there is an urgent need to ban the manufacture and import of cancer-causing pesticides that are destroying the lives of farmers and consumers.
Aslam Khan said that agricultural inputs banned in other countries are openly manufactured and imported in Pakistan which amounts to playing with the lives of people.
Roundup, an agrochemical manufactured by a well-known multinational company, is being sold in Pakistan, which is banned in 20 countries because of its harmful effects.
