LAHORE – Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal on Saturday inaugurated the first bio-fertilizer plant in the country which has the capacity of producing 5,000 bags of fertilizers daily. Seed Corporation Managing Director Syed Muzafar Mahmood, MNA Afzal Khokhar, senior columnist Mujeebur Rehman Shami and more than 1,000 farmers participated in the inauguration ceremony. The speaker while addressing the participants said that this plant would help in overcoming the shortage of fertilizers and boosting the agriculture production in the country.
Afzal Khokhar said that Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif was focusing on the progress of agriculture sector by promoting the private and public partnership.
Shami said that boosting agriculture produce was a must to meet demands of increased population and for this purpose private-public sector partnership was of vital importance.
Jamshed Cheema said that he had visited different parts of Pakistan and other countries like China, Turkey, Malaysia, Australia and Europe to know about agriculture systems there.
He said that production of food and its supply to the consumers was a big challenge for which the first bio-fertilizer plant of latest technology had been installed at Multan road. Annual production of the plant would be more than one million bags of fertilizers. This technology would help in increasing the production of fertilizers in the country to many times within five years. Cheema said the price of a bag which will replace DAP fertilizer is Rs 1,000 while DAP was being sold at the rate of Rs 3,000 per bag.
