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Sindh Agriculture Minister directs forming of teams
KARACHI The Provincial Agriculture Minister, Hasan Ali Chaniho,
Saturday directed that teams of agriculture experts be formed
as part of steps to be taken for attaining self-sufficiency in
the production of basic and pre-basic seeds of wheat and rice.
Presiding over the 24th meeting of Provincial Seed Council,
the Minister called for immediate constitution of teams each
having 10 experts who would be imparted training at the
agricutlure training institutes in Sindh and Punjab so as to
prepare them to play their role in the production of certified
seeds and arrangements could be made for meeting Province's
requirements.
In this regard an 8-member committee was setup to be headed by
DG Agriculture Extention whereas the members would include DG
Agriculture Research, MD Sindh Seed Corporation, progressive
farmers and breeders of wheat and rice.
The committee will select 50 experts in the first phase out of
which 30 would be picked after their interviews and scrutiny
of their educational qualifications. Mr Chaniho said the
selected experts will have to get training from cultivation of
a crop to its cutting, processing, ginning,
thrashing, irrigation, farm management and other related
training. They will then have to work at government and
non-government farms and bring an increase in the productivity
through their performance so as to meet the requirement of
seed for the Province.
The Secretary Agriculture, Abdul Rasheed Memon, said on the
occasion that Sindh's farmers cannot be left at the mercy of
private seed corporations of Sindh and Punjab. The Minister,
he pointed out, has already the statistical data of seed
requirements to Agriculture Research Department and Sindh Seed
Corporation. He said the basic and pre-basic seeds will be
produced in cooperation with government farms and zamindars.
He said attention will be paid on such seeds only which are in
great demand and could also help increase the per acre yield.
November 3, 2001
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