Imparting training : Fish farming centre to be set up

PESHAWAR: The federal government has planned to setup a state-of-the-art training centre with an estimated cost of Rs60 million at the aim of uplifting fish farming on modern lines in Mohmand Agency. “The training centre would be set up at an estimated cost of Rs60 million in Mohmand Agency with an objective to provide extensive training to farmers and people interested to adopt fish farming as a profession,” official sources in Fata Secretariat told APP on Tuesday. The project was approved by Fata Development and Working Party (FDWP) during its recent meeting held on February 25. Land has been acquired for this gigantic project that would be constructed over an area of 44 kanals in Mohmand Agency. In the third phase, a carp hatchery would be set up in the premise of the centre that would be used for education as well as provision of free fish nursery to farmers.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11^th, 2015.

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