• Leaders say millions of farmers are ready to court arrest, but will not pay the tax
• Sindh Chamber of Agriculture vows to move court or go for some other crops

HYDERABAD: Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has announced that it will challenge the 45pc agricultural income tax in court. It described the tax as ‘unconstitutional, illegal and unethical’, and asked its members and farmers across Sindh to boycott wheat cultivation this year.

The decision was taken at meeting of the chamber held here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of its patron-in-chief, Dr Syed Nadeem Qamar.

The meeting rejected the tax and claimed that it was imposed under directives of the Inter­national Monetary Fund (IMF).

The farmers who attended the meeting argued that they were not receiving fair prices for their produce and, as such, there was no........

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