Workshop held to improve agri-services

Workshop reviewed existing agriculture extension services, in order to identify ways for improvement

ISLAMABAD: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), organised a two-day consultative workshop on improving agriculture extension services in Pakistan. The workshop reviewed the existing agriculture extension services, mechanisms and approaches adopted by the provincial agriculture departments and other institutions and organisations in order to identify ways and means to improve the services. Speaking at the opening session of the stakeholders’ workshop, National Food Security and Research Secretary Fazal Abbas Maken emphasised that agricultural research needed to be directed towards finding ways to meet demands of the farmers.  

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2018.

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