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Pesticides policy to be announced soon
LAHORE (April 11 2004): The government is going to
announce 'National Pesticide Policy' soon, as the
draft of the policy will be placed before the
Cabinet in its next meeting, likely to be held
within the next ten days.
Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Live
Stock Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind said this while
talking to newsmen after addressing the concluding
session of National Poultry Congress 2004 here on
Saturday.
"In the proposed pesticide policy, stringent
measures have been suggested to check the menace
of adulteration in pesticides, apart from giving
incentives and comprehensive procedures regarding
fair distribution of import of pesticides," he
said.
The government is considering extending incentives
to those people who intend to manufacture
pesticides in Pakistan, he said.
Rind said that different wheat procurement
agencies would procure 5.6 million tons wheat this
year.
He said that wheat imported from Australia was not
according to the standards fixed by the Government
of Pakistan. He hoped that the country would get
'good wheat crop' this year, which would be more
than 20 million tons. He added that despite zero
carryover stocks of wheat, "we would be able to
cater" to domestic requirements of wheat.
He said that construction of new dams is a must to
meet the water requirements. He said that Sindh
province has some reservations on the construction
of Kalabagh dam, but he hoped that General
Musharraf would tackle this issue.
He said that 82,000 watercourses would be cemented
within the next four years, which would save 40
percent water.
Earlier addressing the National Poultry Congress,
he said that EU and China have extended special
grants to Pakistan for tackling bird flu-like
crisis in future. He emphasised upon all
stakeholders and government functionaries to join
hands to face WTO challenges.
The National Poultry Congress 2004 adopted various
recommendations at the conclusion of the moot.
Professor Dr Manzoor Ahmed, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences,
Lahore, presented the recommendations adopted at
the two-day congress.
Through these recommendations, the government has
been asked to provide 10-year income tax exemption
to all poultry set-ups by waiving off the
condition of formation of limited companies.
It has also been demanded of the government that
electricity tariff for the poultry farms/
hatcheries must be the same as is applicable to
other industrial units. It has also been
recommended that special grants and interest free
loans must be given to small commercial poultry
farmer. Incentives in the shape of allotment of
state land and provision of interest free loans
should be given to qualified veterinarians for
establishment of disease diagnostic laboratories.
Import duties upon the import of feed additive,
pharmaceutical products and equipment must be
withdrawn.
It has been further demanded that 20 percent
rebate be offered upon the export of day-old
chicks, eggs and chicken meat.
Courtesy Business Recorder
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