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By Mansoor Ahmad

The Pakistan Crop Protection Association (PCPA) has announced going on strike indefinitely in order to register their protest over the Punjab government’s campaign against substandard pesticides that led to raids and arrests of a number of pesticide dealers and importers.

A spokesman of PCPA told The News that the strike would continue until Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif met PCPA representatives and gave them patient hearing regarding the prevailing issues and their side of the story.

The Punjab government’s campaign against substandard pesticides had irked the Pakistan Crop Protection Association (PCPA) as it wants the provincial government to adopt a lenient stance.

The Shahbaz Sharif government has started campaign against spurious pesticides from where it left in October 1999. The government has arrested a number of dealers and manufacturers on marketing poor quality pesticides. The PCPA representative body of pesticide manufacturers and dealers has been agitated by the Punjab government’s effective campaign.

Read more: Pesticide dealers announce indefinite strike

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