Quality seed vital for enhancing production
Minister urges scientists to develop seeds that can increase production, utilise less water
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July 18, 2021
MULTAN:
Provincial Minister for Agriculture Syed Hussain Jehanian Gardezi on Saturday said that top quality seed and precision farming were vital for enhancing production of different crops.
Speaking on a ceremony in connection with mechanical cultivation of paddy at Kabirwala, some 40 kilometre away from Multan city, Gardezi said that precision farming was very important to reduce inputs expenses and improve productivity.
The government was taking different steps to empower farmers economically. Recently, the country witnessed record production of wheat, maize, sugarcane and rice.
Retailers say that they were having intermittent and limited wheat flour supplies for the last four weeks before Ramazan but the supplies totally dried up at the advent of the month of fasting. File
LAHORE: Sugar and wheat flour have gone missing from the shelves of the most of retail shops in the provincial metropolis as the government is focusing on maintaining supplies to its Sasta Ramazan bazaars.
Retailers say that they were having intermittent and limited wheat flour supplies for the last four weeks before Ramazan but the supplies totally dried up at the advent of the month of fasting.