Price-rise forces farmers back to bullock ploughing
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Rising price-rise, soaring agricultural input costs and the global electricity scarcity have forced small farmers in the Perowal area to abandon
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Price-rise forces farmers back to bullock ploughing
Rising price-rise, soaring agricultural input costs and the global electricity scarcity have forced small farmers in the Perowal area to abandon modern mechanised farming and return to traditional methods using bullocks instead of tractors.
In what many describe as a symbolic step backwards in agricultural progress, fields that once echoed with the sound of tractors are now seeing wooden ploughs pulled by oxen.
Farmers say the shift reflects growing financial pressure that has made modern cultivation increasingly unaffordable.
The agriculture sector, long considered the backbone of the rural market, is currently facing severe strain due to rising diesel and petrol prices, expensive fertilisers and increasing operational costs.
Farmers can now be seen ploughing fields under the scorching sun, their shoulders bent, bodies soaked in sweat, and feet sinking into the soil as they return to labour-intensive traditional farming practices.
Farmer Mazhar Siyal stated that while the land and fields remain unchanged, rising expenses and limited resources have left them with no option but to revert to older methods.
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