Agriculture experts have called for a reformation in agriculture policies and have asked researchers and policymakers to join hands in finding viable solutions for food insecurity.
At the second meeting of the Council of Research and Policy organised by the US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Agriculture and Food Security, University of Agriculture (UAF) Faisalabad, former National Assembly speaker Fakhar Iman urged think-tanks to come up with solutions to low productivity, high cost of production, marketing, water scarcity, nutrition, urbanisation and decreasing agricultural land.
UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan urged scientists to develop climate changes-tolerant varieties and said, “this year reduction in the cotton is the question mark on agricultural sustainability.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2016.
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