Iqbal for utilising climate resistant seeds

Says it was the responsibility of the private sector to play an active role in the export sector

ISLAMABAD:

Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday stressed the need to adapt the agricultural production to new opportunities and potential threats, besides using such seeds that were resistant to climate change to increase the produce.

Addressing the Agriculture Investment Symposium, he said it was the responsibility of the private sector to play an active role in the export sector.

There were vast investment opportunities in the livestock, flowers, and date industry, and the government would provide all possible cooperation to the private sector to explore them, he added.

Iqbal advised the people related to the agricultural sector and institutions, and private investors to adopt sustainable agricultural strategies in view of climate change as Pakistan being an agricultural country, had the potential to export agricultural products.