Seed multiplication: Soya bean to be sown over 1,000 acres

ISLAMABAD: Soya bean crop will be cultivated over 1,000 acres of land during the current season for seed multiplication at the National Agriculture Research Council (Narc) and farmers’ fields through contract farming in Sargodha, Chakwal, Attock and northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Narc Director General Azeem Khan, in a meeting here on Wednesday with Federal Secretary Seerat Asghar in the chair, said soya bean had wider genetic diversity for different uses, therefore, new varieties with potential of higher yields and other features may be developed. Urging all stakeholders to work together for the development of agriculture, Asghar said the ultimate goal of these efforts was to increase farmers’ income by giving new choices such as sowing soya bean crop in the existing system. Soya bean had tremendous scope in the country’s farming system and there was a need to develop new varieties that would mature in the short term and would be suitable for different ecologies of Pakistan, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 4^th,  2015.

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