KARACHI:The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises held a meeting with SME merchants and farmers on 31st August 2020 at its office and learnt about the colossal damage to merchandise and standing crops in Sindh and Punjab.
UNISAME president Zulfikar Thaver said the national and private media is mostly reporting about Karachi but not about the huge loss and damage to crops in other areas of Sindh, and Punjab.
In Sindh and Punjab cotton, rice and vegetables have been destroyed. He said especially tomatoes and chilli standing crops have been submerged due to floods caused by heavy unprecedented rains.
In Karachi many shopkeepers mostly SMEs found knee-deep water in their shops which destroyed their merchandise.
UNISAME has appealed to the government and philanthropists to help the SME farmers and businessmen to stand back on their feet.
It is apprehended that the country will face non availability of vegetables and crops and as a result the prices will jump sky high. The government needs to work on this immediately and come up with solutions to either facilitate imports or come up with alternate solutions to food security and to overcome the crisis.
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