Minister Sindh is seeking bold steps to modernize agriculture

Karachi:

The Minister of Agriculture of Sindh Muhammad Bux Khan Mahar stressed the need to take bold measures to modernize and improve productivity, while creating a more durable agricultural sector.

He spoke at the final meeting of the two -day conference and the Pakistani Coalition’s report and held at the Expo Karachi Center on Thursday.

He said that agricultural economies around the world are working to improve their agriculture chains, making them more effective, innovative and business.

“Challenges such as post -harvesting losses (average loss of 40% of crop crops), limited access to modern storage facilities and climate change (floods of biblical levels over the past 15 years in Sindh) remain significant obstacles to the development of its sector Our agriculture, “he said.

A spokesman for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Pakistan Florence Rolle said the private sector could form the future of a farm market led by market in Pakistan. He said there is a big gap between farmers and investors. Cooperation is not the case in Pakistan as in other countries.

Gediz Kaya, Managing Director of Gaia Climate Turkey, said carbon credits are vital to climate mitigation, but there is less understanding in Pakistan for carbon credits.

“It is vital for coaling technologies to be banking for investors and also vital to the agriculture sector, including small medium -sized enterprises (SMEs). It is really important for a country like Pakistan,” Kaya said.

Inteq ZRT technical director Balint Pongracz said: “Hungarian agriculture is oriented towards maximizing volumes, not profitability. The future is clearly in adopting artificial intelligence systems and we are not yet. data. “

The Director of the Director of the Sindh Sadiq Public-foundation Foundation said that private sector investments can improve crops, seed technologies and advanced irrigation systems to achieve effectiveness.

The Secretary of the Development Authority (TDAP) Sheryar Taj revealed that the Authority is organizing 27 exhibitions this year as part of the annual business plan to increase the country’s agricultural exports.