Mr. Gada Hussain Mahessar

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  LARKANA: President of Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) Gada Hussain Mahessar has said the growers are being provided no facilities, but the contractors are being facilitated by the government functionaries to extort "goonda tax" from the growers in the name of market committees by setting up "posts" (Nakas) on the roads.
  
  Addressing a press conference, Mahessar regretted that there were no market committees in most of the cities of the province like Badin, Thatta and Dadu, where "posts" had been set up to extort tax, at gunpoint, on agricultural produce of all sorts, coming from various districts twice or thrice.
  
  Mahessar clarified that under the Agriculture Produce Market Act 1939 (sections 3, 4, 4/6 and 19) in Sindh the market committees have been authorised to receive market fee at fixed rates on only agricultural produce from the licence holder purchaser within the notified areas of market committees, but this does not include the by-products of agricultural produce.He said it was the function of market committees to establish markets for agricultural produce of growers equipped with all required facilities from the committees' own income, along with banking facility.
  
  He said Punjab had no contract system, and only market committees were functional there, which received market fee and managed the markets.He demanded to abolish existing contract money.He also asked the millers, traders and growers of Sindh not to pay tax to the "posts" set up on the roads.

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  April 12: President of Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) Gada Hussain Mahessar has said the growers are being provided no facilities, but the contractors are being facilitated by the government functionaries to extort "goonda tax" from the growers in the name of market committees by setting up "posts" (Nakas) on the roads.

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  April 12: President of Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) Gada Hussain Mahessar has said the growers are being provided no facilities, but the contractors are being facilitated by the government functionaries to extort "goonda tax" from the growers in the name of market committees by setting up "posts" (Nakas) on the roads.

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  The general body meeting of the Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) was held here with its President Gada Hussain Mahessar in the chair.The meeting discussed at length the problems being faced by the rice businessmen in Sindh and Balochistan, especially the deteriorated law and order, attack of pests on paddy crop, monopoly of the rice exporters, banking mark-up, modernisation of rice industry and others.Mahessar elaborated the problems that are affecting adversely the rice business that notonly earn foreign exchange every year, but also provide employment to thousands of people, as 700 rice mills run in both the provinces.

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  The president of the association, Gada Hussain Mahesar, in a statement issued here on Wednesday, criticized the Sindh agriculture department for its wrong assessment of the current rice crop.He said that the rise of Irri-6 price from Rs225 per 40 kilogramme to Rs290 amidst its low production could create a serious situation.
  
  He said that pest attack had inflicted 25 to 30 per cent damages to the standing crop of Irri-6, being cultivated on 50 per cent of land under cultivation in Sindh.
  
  The rice variety, he said, was commonly used in the country and the increase in its price in local market could mean a decrease in its export as rice price in international market was stagnant.
  
  He predicted that hardly 500,000 tonnes of rice could be exported this year against the previous record of one to 1.1 million tonnes and added that it could cast a negative impact on foreign exchange reserves.
  
  This was due to flawed policies of the agriculture department that had underestimated the degree of damages to the paddy crop, he said and added that Sindh was already facing a wheat crisis due to the incorrect assessment of the crop.
  
  He proposed that the Irri-6 crop should be stocked in godowns to prevent any shortage, warning that otherwise the country could be compelled to import the rice from India.
  
  Mr Mahesar said that in the absence of certified seeds and modern technology coupled with ever increasing rates of fertilizers and use of adulterated pesticides and insecticides, rice crop was severely affected in Sindh every year.As result, he added, per acre yield of rice was gradually decreasing.
  
  He demanded that the agriculture department should timely disseminate information about fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides and other inputs to avoid losses in future.

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  Gada Hussain Mahesar, the president of the association, in a press statement here on Wednesday, said that rice mills would remain closed in the district on Saturday.
  
  In the second phase, he claimed that around 750 mills in Sindh and Baluchistan would be closed for a day and finally the millers would go on an indefinite strike.Mr Mahesar said that law and order situation in Sindh continued to deteriorate which had rendered law-abiding residents, and particularly businessmen, insecure.
  
  He said that rice traders had been special targets of kidnappers, several of them had been kidnapped and had paid ransom to secure their release.Those who failed to pay ransom, he added, had been killed.He appealed the president and the Sindh chief minister to come to the rescue of people of Sindh.

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  LARKANA: The general body meeting of the Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) was held here with its President Gada Hussain Mahessar in the chair(PeopleDaily)SBRMTA discusses problems of rice traders| By our correspondent | LARKANA: The general body meeting of the Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) was held here with its President Gada Hussain Mahessar in the chair. |... (photo: PeopleDaily) The News International
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  LARKANA: The general body meeting of the Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) was held here with its President Gada Hussain Mahessar in the chair(PeopleDaily)
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  LARKANA: The general body meeting of the Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) was held here with its President Gada Hussain Mahessar in the chair(PeopleDaily)...The News International

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  Millers' appeal over rice stock -DAWN - National; 03... - [Cached Version]
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  The appeal was made by Sindh-Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association president Gada Hussain Mahessar and Larkana Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Iqbal Hussain Shaikh while speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday.

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  | Bureau Report | HYDERABAD, May 6: The president, Sindh-Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association, Mr Gada Hussain Mahessar, has appealed to the federal governmen... (photo: UDSA Photo) Dawn

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  Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) President Gada Hussain Mehessar has said this on Wednesday.
  
  He said that their rice was waiting to be purchased by Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) and Export Promotion Bureau of Pakistan (EPB).Without marketing of that accumulated D-98 variety, the millers would be unable to clear the cash finance of the banks that was due to be cleared by August 31.
  
  The SBRMTA President said that D-98 was a late sowing crop due to non-availability and acute shortage of irrigation water.
  
  Mehessar said that if the stored rice was not sold, the millers would be unable to purchase crop of D-98 which was to start arriving from October, adding the cost of 0.1 million metric tonnes of D-98 rice was not less than 2,000 million.
  
  He appealed the Federal government to take steps for the export of that huge quantity of D-98 within shortest possible time to emancipate the millers and the rice growers from harm and trouble and provide them relief.

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