ISLAMABAD: The federal government was urged on Saturday to abolish corporate farming projects and land allocation to foreign multinationals.

The participants at a conference, which Awami Tahreek had organised in the capital, unanimously rejected the construction of six new canals on the Indus River, amendments to the Irsa Act, and corporate farming, labelling them as anti-state and anti-people projects.

The conference brought together politicians, intellectuals, technocrats, water experts, scholars, scientists, engineers, environmentalists, hydrologists, and social activists from across Pakistan.

The conference accused the Shehbaz-Zardari government of pursuing policies detrimental to the country’s agriculture, environment and local communities.

They demanded that these lands be distributed among landless farmers to spark genuine agricultural and economic........

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