Pakistan needs to shift its focus from its conventional agriculture methodology to modern farming techniques to curtail post-harvest losses and for ensuring proper wheat storages at production areas.
Harvest Trading CEO Ahmad Jawad on Monday said that modern cold storages, testing laboratories and local trainings were needed to boost Pakistan’s share of agricultural products in the fast-growing global market. “It’ is time to focus on the unexplored potential of the dairy industry and horticulture sector to push the overall agriculture growth rate,” he added. Jawad proposed that international agricultural experts needed to be invited to find means for increasing per acre yield, proper training in crop management and for promoting and reactivating agricultural research institutions. Furthermore, he said that Pakistan could not become an agricultural country in the true sense until conventional agricultural methods were replaced with modern farming techniques and hybrid technology.
