Pakistan should seek help from China for nanotechnology to promote high-yield agriculture: Top Pakistani businessperson
Gwadar Pro
Islamabad: Pakistan should seek China’s help in nanotechnology to promote high-yield agriculture, a top Pakistani businessperson said this week.
“(Pakistani) Ministry of National Food and Security should talk with China to extend its achievements in the field of nanotechnology to promote high-yield agriculturein Pakistan.” Pakistan Businesses Forum (PBF) Vice President, Ahmad Jawad said in a statement.
Jawad urged the Pakistani government to take concrete measures to bring down the cost of agriculture production, besides prioritizing the agriculture sector in its economic plan, and ensuring food security through enhanced per acre yield.
“At present we need to increase our yield per acre in all major crops including cotton, rice, wheat and maize,” he stressed and added that “without value addition in the agriculture sector and development of agro-industries we would not be able to develop our economy better”.
He suggested nanotechnology for high-efficacy agriculture will promote traditional agriculture on the road of high-quality connotative development.
“It can effectively promote farmers increase in production and income and solve problems such as abandoned farmland and the adverse effects caused by excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers,” he maintained.
Jawad contended that as the results of nanotechnology for high-yield agriculture projects will not only benefit Pakistani farmers, but also open a new way for Chinese agricultural science and technology to reach the world.
Similarly, “we must seek China’s cooperation in the development of crop varieties, animal breed improvement, collaboration in further development of agricultural machinery and improvement of capacity development and training,” he stated.
He pointed out that lack of investment in agriculture research, climate change, poor governance and bad planning had resulted in the shortage of wheat, sugar and cotton in the country.
