Stakeholders urged to increase rice production
A farmer tends to his rice field in the village of Yangchao in Liping County, Guizhou province, China, June 11, 2021. Picture taken June 11, 2021. REUTERS
Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman presided over a meeting of the Sub-Committee on Rice Seed to review suggestions regarding improvement of the rice seed.
The meeting was held at the Governor’s House on Tuesday.
The governor said that rice was an important cash crop that earned the country billions in foreign exchange besides meeting the country’s nutritional requirements.
He said that all the stakeholders had to give special attention to the research on rice seed to increase rice production substantially and explore new markets to increase export of rice.
The governor said that modern research was needed to improve the quality of the seed to increase the export of rice so that the production of high quality rice in the country and its export could be boosted through joint efforts.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 15th, 2023.