Govt takes steps to boost agri sector
950 to be hired in merged districts
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PESHAWAR:
The provincial government has created over 950 vacancies in the agriculture department for the merged districts under its development programme.
This was disclosed during a meeting presided over by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan to review progress on the ongoing uplift schemes initiated by the Agriculture Department in the Newly Merged Tribal Districts (NMTDs).
The meeting was told that the process of recruitment against these newly created vacancies of basic pay scale-III (BPS) to BPS-18 would be completed during the next fiscal year.
The meeting was informed that 732 jobs have been created in the livestock and dairy development sector, 46 in fisheries, 106 in soil and water conservation, 81 in agriculture engineering and 50 in agriculture extension.
The Integrated Agriculture Development Scheme had been launched in the merged districts at a cost of Rs1.5 billion under which orchards have been established over 1, 950 acres of land whereas vegetable seeds have been distributed for 4, 267 acre of land, and the scheme would be completed by the year 2022.
Similarly, another scheme for virus free seed potato production using tissue culture has also been launched with a cost of Rs508 million, it was informed.
One tissue laboratory has been made operational while construction of another laboratory was in progress and trainings are being imparted to the local farmers.
The chief minister was further informed that a three-year scheme has been launched for livestock productivity enhancement at a cost of Rs674 million under which 13 mobile veterinary clinics and 100 calf fattening farms have been established whereas over 1000 units sheep and goats have been distributed in the merged districts.
Under the agriculture engineering sector, a scheme worth Rs1.6 billion has been launched for levelling waste land and solarisation of existing agricultural tube wells. Beside other initiatives, a scheme for olive cultivation and establishment of olive oil processing plants have been proposed in the next ADP.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2020.
The provincial government has created over 950 vacancies in the agriculture department for the merged districts under its development programme.
This was disclosed during a meeting presided over by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan to review progress on the ongoing uplift schemes initiated by the Agriculture Department in the Newly Merged Tribal Districts (NMTDs).
The meeting was told that the process of recruitment against these newly created vacancies of basic pay scale-III (BPS) to BPS-18 would be completed during the next fiscal year.
The meeting was informed that 732 jobs have been created in the livestock and dairy development sector, 46 in fisheries, 106 in soil and water conservation, 81 in agriculture engineering and 50 in agriculture extension.
The Integrated Agriculture Development Scheme had been launched in the merged districts at a cost of Rs1.5 billion under which orchards have been established over 1, 950 acres of land whereas vegetable seeds have been distributed for 4, 267 acre of land, and the scheme would be completed by the year 2022.
Similarly, another scheme for virus free seed potato production using tissue culture has also been launched with a cost of Rs508 million, it was informed.
One tissue laboratory has been made operational while construction of another laboratory was in progress and trainings are being imparted to the local farmers.
The chief minister was further informed that a three-year scheme has been launched for livestock productivity enhancement at a cost of Rs674 million under which 13 mobile veterinary clinics and 100 calf fattening farms have been established whereas over 1000 units sheep and goats have been distributed in the merged districts.
Under the agriculture engineering sector, a scheme worth Rs1.6 billion has been launched for levelling waste land and solarisation of existing agricultural tube wells. Beside other initiatives, a scheme for olive cultivation and establishment of olive oil processing plants have been proposed in the next ADP.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2020.