“The Punjab government is committed to allocate maximum available resources for the uplift of agricultural sector in the province so that green revolution can occur to control the growing pollution in the country” Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh said on Wednesday.
He was addressing an agriculture exhibition at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad as a part of the six-day annual Spring Festival.
The minister also inaugurated a fancy bird show and visited a flower show and tent pegging and livestock beauty competition.
Aulakh said that the UAF had played a vital role in spreading awareness about modern agricultural practices among the farming community.
Taking about the water issues, he said that the provincial government was launching a Rs36 billion water project to introduce new water conservation techniques to ensure efficient use of water.
He also stressed the need for building Kalabagh Dam.
“India has built 60 large dams, but we have only two big dams and are reluctant to construct more water reservoirs,” he said.
He said that a huge amount of water was being wasted in the floods that played havoc with the lives of the people and destroyed crops and livestock worth billions of rupees.
“It is a matter of concern that the country is throwing 35 million acre feet of water to the sea,” he said.
He said that the government was providing 20,000 tractors on subsidised prices.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 15th, 2012.
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