Sources in agriculture department told Business Recorder on Thursday that at present 66 per cent of edible oil was being imported and only 34 per cent of edible oil was produced within the country to meet the domestic demands.
The agriculture department was making adequate efforts to motivate the farmers to bring their maximum land under sunflower crop including other oilseed crops for bringing down the import of edible oil. In Sialkot district, 5,000 acres of land would be brought under sunflower crop while tehsil wise break up is 2,000 acres in Pasrur, 2,000 acres Daska and 1000 acres in Sambrial tehsils. The department has directed the sunflower growers to use only recommended sunflower seeds for attaining maximum output of the crop.
Courtesy Business Recorder
22:43 |
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FAISALABAD:
The provincial government aims to teach farmers how to use modern production methods by sending them information on their mobile phones.
Agriculture Department officials said that by March the government planned to register one million farmers in the programme. The farmers will be trained to use modern technology to increase production, they said. Moreover, farmers will also be able to ask for solutions to specific problems by sending questions via their mobile phones.
They said that farmers would have to provide their CNIC numbers, mobile numbers and details related to their agriculture land and crop for registration. The details will be sent to a communication technology centre set up at the office of the agriculture director general. The centre will communicate with the farmers.
The Agriculture Department (Faisalabad extension) has been given a target of registering 20,000 farmers for the programme. A registration cell has been set up under the supervision of District Officer Chaudhry Abdul Hameed.
The DO said that the department hoped the programme would improve the farmers’ knowledge of crops and production.
Courtesy The Express Tribune
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