Holland to help boost potato yield
While the fresh crop of potatoes is being prepared for harvest, certain middlemen are spreading false news that the government has imposed duty on the export of potatoes. PHOTO: FILE
Highlighting importance of the agriculture sector, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Pakistan Wouter Plomp on Tuesday noted that food security was a growing concern due to impacts of climate change and rapid increase in population.
Talking to the master trainers of a project “Capacity Building of small scale potato growers in the Punjab” at the UAF, he said that Netherlands Enterprise Agency was supporting the project which was helping increase productivity and sustainability of 950 smallholder potato growers in four districts of Punjab including Sahiwal, Okara, Kasur and Pakpattan.
He said that agriculture had gained importance because of the need to feed the ever-growing population that may touch 10 billion by the end of this century