Agriculture uplift: Sowing prosperity through cooperation

US provides Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 21 million dollars to compensate for the agricultural loss by 2010 floods.

KHYBER: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) received $21 million from the $62 million agriculture recovery programme disbursed by the US recently, said a press release issued by the US embassy here on Tuesday.

The program distributed these seed packages to households throughout the country just in time for planting the Rabi crop.

If the farmers had not received seeds this fall, there would have been no wheat crop in 2011, depriving rural communities of their staple food and leaving many families in danger of poverty and hunger.

It also includes cash-for-work projects to clean and repair irrigation systems and provides farmers with much-needed vegetable seeds to boost family nutrition.

The program also provides supplementary feed and veterinary support for livestock to prevent disease outbreaks and offers overall support to ensure the agricultural health of K-P after the floods.

The program is a joint effort between the government of K-P and USAID.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 12^th, 2011.