Sewage-grown vegetables destroyed

SARGODHA   -   The Pun­jab Food Authority (PFA) on Sunday destroyed veg­etables grown with waste water spread over a 20 kanal area of land in Bha­kar district. According to a press release, a PFA team equipped with a tractor in­spected vegetables grown in the Lal Darwaesh area of Bhakar and destroyed the cabbage crop, which was be­ing irrigated with sewage. A spokesman for the Punjab Food Authority said that there was a ban on the culti­vation of sewage-grown veg­etables and strict action was being taken against farmers on the violation.

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