Admiring Indian eminence in the Agriculture Sector, Punjab Assembly (PA) on Friday suggested the Punjab Food Department to enhance interaction with agriculturists from East Punjab (India) to benefit from their research and methodology.
Legislators while debating on current year’s wheat shortage acknowledged East Punjab’s agriculturist expertise and suggested the Punjab Food Minister Bilal Yasin along with other members of the PA should visit India to observe and adopt the research methodology of Indians.
The legislators boldly admitted that Indians have advantage in the agriculture sector over Pakistan as they were able to produce extra crops from far less area of land than compared to Pakistan. The House was united on the thought of taking guidelines from India to boost local production in the field of agriculture. The assembly speaker advised Bilal Yasin to visit the neighbouring country along with a parliamentary delegation for the purpose. The speaker also advised Yasin that his ministry should focus on research in the field of agriculture as it was the only key to improve the local production of different crops.
During the debate, a treasury member and former Punjab food minister Iqbal Gujjar said though he has no wish to praise India but they must accept that India was getting more agriculture produce than Pakistan. He remarked that despite East Punjab being smaller than West Punjab it is recognized as Food Basket due to its huge production of different crops. Highlighting problems faced by the farmers, he suggested the government to provide subsidy on wheat and the flour separately.
While, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI’s) opposition member Sabtain Khan said that he fully endorsed the speaker’s advice of a delegation visiting India the visit expenditure should be personally borne by the delegation members. Khan also demanded the government to increase wheat rates from Rs 1,200 to Rs 1,500 per maund to benefit the farmers.
Opposition Leader Mehmood-ur-Rasheed urged the government to announce a package of subsidy on in-puts for the small tenants. He warned the government of the looming wheat crisis in the province as wheat production this year remained two million tonnes less than the target.
Moreover, during the PA session which started an hour late under the chairmanship of PA Speaker Rana Mohammad Iqbal on Friday, two newly elected MPAs namely Khurram Wattoo from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Zubair Khan from Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) took oaths.
So it has come down to this. Shouldn't we fire our agriculture experts first. And what about China which is feeding +1.3 billion people ?
No. We should put on trials all the ex Ministers in Charge alive and and then banish them to work as harees for their remaining life.
If they are in such a helpless situation then agri dept officials of all the departments from soil to extension should be terminated, actually they are responsible for such a situation, feeding on enormous amount of wages and in return they are not even present for performing their duties.
what we can learn from India or elsewhere, we should, that should be our aim, we are far behind India in terms of agriculture, industry, and trade and commerce, Indian feeds over a billion mouth on a daily basis, we do not have Tatas, Godrej,Birla, Relianace, Hinduja, we need to develop the kind of entrepreuner that India has, we lag far behind. people are hard working, they go for knowledge, they are compliant, I will give only one example,I was invited to Dubai by a frined, He belongs to Pindi, there were over 100 staff working in his office, all Indians, I asked him why ? He said u were working with me for 25 years u were from Bombay and i know how hard working and compliant and your integrity so I decided to hire only Indian poeple and I am so sastisfied I need no one from Paksitan, they are aggresive, do not work overtime, do not obey, these peopleare always willing to go one steop ahead. so I am successful here, we need to change, cutiivate nature to do hard work, learn, and act like people with great honesty. there lives the success. i have seen people in genral here avoid work, do not accomplish the task in given time, smoke and take tea, when not required, keep talking politics and un=necessary subjects, waste precious time, and hence not required, we need to change or else we will be wiped out
– India is building dams and increasing its water storage capacity, we are fighting over 'consesnsus building, which will NEVER happen'.
– India gives subsidy on fertilizer, seeds, and other inputs, we put GST and make lives more difficult for farmers.
– India jealously guards its farmers, we skin them and crucify them, tax them.
– India give susbsidy on electricity and oil to farmers, we cahrge international price for oil and electricity yet DO NOT pay international price of wheat to the farmer.
If we want to grow in agriculture, we need to focus on farmer profitability.
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