Agriculture: Stress laid on productivity

Executive Director of SCOPE stressed for awareness and skill development to promote home production

ISLAMABAD: Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition (AAHM- Pak) urged farmers to adopt modern techniques to increase agricultural productivity in order to overcome food shortage. Addressing a press conference, Executive Director of Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE), also the member of AAHM, Tanvir Arif said farmers should be given seeds, fertilisers and water supply on subsidised rates to get ideal results to overcome food insecurity.  He said that rural households had reduced home production of vegetables and fruits while the rural, poultry, goat farming and kitchen had also lost its importance. He stressed for awareness and skill development to promote home production, which could fulfil nutrition needs at low cost. He underlined the importance of a plan for preservation, storage and consumption of food items. Increasing agriculture investment at provincial level, adopting innovative and sustainable agriculture resources and its access to small farmers are areas to be focused on, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2014.

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