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LahoreTo attain food autarky, the Punjab government is spending a sum of Rs 3.89 billion during current fiscal 2013-14.
According to official sources, 31 schemes will be accomplished which include 13 ongoing and 18 new projects. They said Punjab is considered a food basket of Pakistan and a number of comprehensive steps are being taken to promote the agricultural sector.
The steps include food security and promotion of exportable high value crops through improved techniques, revamping marketing system and averting losses from insects, pests, weeds, alkanity, and salinity.
In completing schemes, the main emphasis will be on innovate technologies to bring vertical crop productivity enhancement, increasing farmers income through increased crop productivity, better support prices, efficient water supply through improved watercourses land leveling, horticulture by encouraging private sector, exploring energy sources, minimizing reliance on oil seeds import by boosting local production, efficient market infrastructure to ensure optimal value addition and strengthening research-extension farmer linkage.
Under the governments strategic interventions, promotion of cotton in Thal will be ensured through pressurised irrigation, marketing rice transplanting through service providers to achieve optimal plant population per acre, irridication of poverty through distribution of house-cum-gardening plots on lease, basis in Southern Punjab and kitchen gardening in big towns to overcome high vegetable prices.
Govt to spend Rs3.89b for food autarky
According to official sources, 31 schemes will be accomplished which include 13 ongoing and 18 new projects. They said Punjab is considered a food basket of Pakistan and a number of comprehensive steps are being taken to promote the agricultural sector.
The steps include food security and promotion of exportable high value crops through improved techniques, revamping marketing system and averting losses from insects, pests, weeds, alkanity, and salinity.
In completing schemes, the main emphasis will be on innovate technologies to bring vertical crop productivity enhancement, increasing farmers income through increased crop productivity, better support prices, efficient water supply through improved watercourses land leveling, horticulture by encouraging private sector, exploring energy sources, minimizing reliance on oil seeds import by boosting local production, efficient market infrastructure to ensure optimal value addition and strengthening research-extension farmer linkage.
Under the governments strategic interventions, promotion of cotton in Thal will be ensured through pressurised irrigation, marketing rice transplanting through service providers to achieve optimal plant population per acre, irridication of poverty through distribution of house-cum-gardening plots on lease, basis in Southern Punjab and kitchen gardening in big towns to overcome high vegetable prices.
Govt to spend Rs3.89b for food autarky
