{"id":529,"date":"2019-06-17T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/?p=529"},"modified":"2019-08-06T17:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:47:27","slug":"not-for-the-little-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Not for the little guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/files\/2019\/06\/5d06f517083be.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-544 \" src=\"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/files\/2019\/06\/5d06f517083be-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Tariq Mehmood<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Former coordinator<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek KPK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal budget offers us nothing,\u201d says Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek\u2019s former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa coordinator Tariq Mehmood. His biggest concerns are about seed development and lack of support for small and landless farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers\u2019 reliance on imported seeds is increasing day-by-day as indigenous seed is not being improved, he points out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is doling out lands to multinational companies but is reluctant to distribute land among landless farmers\u201d, he complained, saying that the federal budget focuses on subsidies on tube wells which are used by large landholders and not small farmers. \u201cBudget offers nothing for inputs availability and their prices either\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/print\/1488697\">https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/print\/1488697<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tariq Mehmood Former coordinator Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek KPK \u201cThe federal budget offers us nothing,\u201d says Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek\u2019s former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa coordinator Tariq Mehmood. His biggest concerns are about seed development and lack of support for small and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/?p=529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farmer","category-land-grab","category-landless","category-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkmt.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}