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Punjab to
share agricultural knowledge with other provinces
LAHORE, March 11: The Punjab will share agricultural knowledge
with other provinces by developing three model villages in
Sindh and one in Balochistan, Governor Khalid Maqbool said on
Monday.
Talking to delegations of farmers from Sindh here, the
governor said that the four provinces have agrarian economies.
"It is essential to pool agricultural knowledge to increase
national wealth and improve people's living."
Visits by farmers, he said, would help understand each others
problems in addition to sharing knowledge. Agriculture must
become an industry for which special attention should be given
to marketing techniques and crop improvement.
The Punjab government was trying to provide adulteration-free
pesticides to farmers and provision of loans on easy terms.
The Punjab and Sindh, both facing waters shortages, must adopt
techniques like laser levelling, zero tillage, bed planting,
lining of water courses to optimize use of the water
available.
March 11, 2002
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