Islamabad: The federal government on Wednesday prepared a National Action Plan for the modernisation of the agriculture sector — with the initiative falling under the auspices of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a news source reported.
Sources revealed that the plan for the modernisation of the agriculture sector focuses on issues that impede the country’s agricultural output. These include:
Locust control
Exchange of agriculture experts
Germ plasma resource exchange
Pest & disease control satellite station
Aqua culture & shrimp farming
Fisheries
Post-harvest food processing technologies
Sharing a two-year performance report, the government officials concerned revealed that work had been initiated on the Kachhi Canal Phase II project. They added that the second phase of the project would assist in irrigating 216,000 acres of land. They also highlighted that the project had the capacity to turn large tracts of land in Balochistan into a food basket. This would be a source for food for not only the people of the province, but for the rest of the country as well, they said.
According to sources, Phase I of Kachhi Canal has already reached completion — irrigating 7,200 acres of fertile land and increasing cropping intensity from 4% to 80%.
