The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Wednesday launched a crackdown against toxic vegetables that cultivated with industrial waste and sewerage water in the provincial metropolis.
The authority under the supervision of PFA Director General Irfan Nawaz has uprooted unhealthy vegetable crops by ploughing on 64 Kanal land in the area of Saday Wala, Bund Road. According to details, PFA has ploughed on the different crops including beetroot, turnip and cabbage. He said that the use of wastewater to irrigate crops causes health diseases after adding its toxic materials in the ready crops. The director general further said that farmers can cultivate the only alternative/non-edible crops with sewerage and industrial wastewater like bamboos, jute, indoor plants and flowers. He informed that vegetables are being irrigated through tubewell water as compared to last year practice from farmers. The Punjab Food Authority is vigilantly monitoring to ensure the safe food from farm to plate, he added.