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Corporate farming by defence forces gets a jumpstart

KHANEWAL: The cutting-edge corporate agriculture farming Sunday got a jumpstart by the defence forces in a multi-billion dollar move, aiming to ensure national food security and tapping the export market.


“We launched a modern corporate farming project to take Pakistan’s agriculture to new height. Our main focus area has been import-substitution farming so that domestic production can eventually replace billions of dollar worth of imports,” said Maj Gen (Retd) Tahir Aslam, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FonGrow, a subsidiary of Fauji Foundation, which is spearheaded by defence institutions.

Aslam termed FonGrow a harbinger of completely mechanised, smart farming in the country as part of a flagship project of Green Pakistan Initiative, recently launched under the auspices of Pakistan Army at a function attended by the prime minister and Chief of the Army Staff.

He was talking to Lahore-based journalists during a media visit to the 2,250-acre site of country’s first corporate farm on Sunday, which is scheduled to be formally inaugurated by prime minister and Army Chief today (Monday).

Tahir said FonGrow was devolving a model that could be replicated by foreign investors at a later stage.

“We strive to expand corporate farms to 100,000 acres for cultivating wheat, cotton, oilseed crops, soybean and sesame in different districts of the country. The Green Initiative eyes corporate farming at one million acres of land by fostering partnership with various foreign and local players,” he added.

“We have set up this platform on the premise to achieve goal of reducing foreign dependency through enhanced local production. Our first trial of maize crop has yielded 20 percent more output than output of progressive farmers and that too with lesser use of water, fertiliser and other inputs.

“The establishment of FonGrow farm is truly the first step towards agricultural revolution. This is a one-of-a-kind agricultural system spread over 2,250 acres at Porowal which is planned to be expanded under a robust development plan in the next five years. It consists of mostly barren piece of land,” he said.

To a question, he made it clear that they were not against or competing with small-scale farmers. Rather, he claimed, this initiative would help introduce best farming practices at different levels.

Muhammad Zahid Aziz, Manager Farms, said the country’s agriculture needs to be expanded both horizontally and vertically with a view to increasing area under cultivation and enhancing per acre yield.

FonGrow is simultaneously targeting both these goals by employing resource conservation technology.

He said similar corporate farming in desert and semi-desert land in Bhakkar, Mankera and Layyah was also being launched.

Eng Mushtaq Ahmed Gill, Irrigation Consultant, said high efficiency agriculture had been the hallmark of FonGrow corporate farming where the center pivot irrigation made it possible to conserve water up to 90 percent.

It is sheer departure from conventional flood irrigation where most of water is lost before reaching the plants.








 
Yes billions of extra dollars in farming produce for the generals. Hell will freeze over before you see any benefit for the Pakistani people.

Anyone else heard of US army wheat? How about British army olives? Wait what of even Indian army sugar cane? Me neither.

What a pathetic state of affairs.
heck, the Indian Army even returned the farms that they had since the British Era, and ours just keeps on adding more and more.

Billions of extra dollars will add into Pakistan's GDP.

Food grown by Fauzis will be consumed by Awaam.

It's a win-win situation for Pak economy.
is that sarcasm?
because Fauji Foundation pays zero tax.

plus the normal population will have to buy everything at market rates, which everyone is doing already.
 
Exactly what an Army Chief should be doing!

Well done Asim Munir sahab!

Quetta shuetta, Waziristan, miss karao Asim sahab. Kheti bari karo.

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Hah! There is not much of difference between the Pakistani military and the Central/northern Punjab ruling elite. They have a symbiotic relationship and doesn't take much to trace how they interact and their family relationships! And Imran's PTI is basically a mirror image of the Noon League in everyway except PTI has not yet been 'seasoned' by the political victimizations like Noonies had to for a long time. Otherwise, both are Punjab-based parties, led by Punjabis, although one pretends to be a 'Pashtun' to also try to get the Pashtun votes from the KP.

As for the 'Neutrals' label, they did try to be 'Neutrals' for a long time after the April 2022 NCM and took all kind of abuse/lies from Imran until Imran gave them the chance on May 9.

And what did Imran do to threaten the Establishment when Imran was in power for almost 4 years?? This entire anti-Establishment bogus 'narrative' started after the 'Neutrals' refused to intervene on Imran's behalf to restore him to power. And sadly gullible have bought the fake narrative.

Dude, you really need to get a life.

Har thread main, har topic main, you just bring in Imran Khan from out of nowhere.

Move on buddy.

If you go to the website of FonGrow, they are using PARC equipment for a private sector business. Where the heck does this happen?

What the heck is the irrigation or agriculture department doing then in this country?
 
Stop this BS propaganda people, the only reason why Pakistan Army took this Kheti bari Project because one of the requirement was to wake up early in the morning to take care of crops, and luckily we have an Army who wakes up for Fajr ki Namaz every day so this was a perfect match for them, Pakistani's have no idea what they are talking about.
 
Har thread main, har topic main, you just bring in Imran Khan from out of nowhere.
Move on buddy.
If you go to the website of FonGrow, they are using PARC equipment for a private sector business. Where the heck does this happen?
What the heck is the irrigation or agriculture department doing then in this country?

Because you guys are trying too hard to pin everything bad on the military now that Imran is cursing the military. If this was done under Imran's regime, you'd be singing a different tune. So, yes, just like you guys bring your pro-Imran perspective to rubbish everything being done, someone has to counter that and give a message of hope. And I see hope in Pakistan going forward as the Anarchist Khan destruction is being put behind.

Anyway, the situation in Pakistan is drastic and so drastic measures are being taken like this. Indians who posted above have a better, more positive perspective because they know what Pakistan is going through and what must be done to reverse the downfall, otherwise there is an abyss waiting for Pakistan.
 
Military precision is required in modern day agriculture.

I call upon the Government to provide a platform for private endeavors in the sector.
 
Yes billions of extra dollars in farming produce for the generals. Hell will freeze over before you see any benefit for the Pakistani people.

Anyone else heard of US army wheat? How about British army olives? Wait what of even Indian army sugar cane? Me neither.

What a pathetic state of affairs.

That's the problem with US and British Army. Had those clowns gone into farming and implemented new technology in Afghanistan and Iraq, they would have been 1st world countries by now; those goat humpers would have been exporting milk and honey.

Socho!

@waz it's a sarcastic post. :D
 
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Yes billions of extra dollars in farming produce for the generals. Hell will freeze over before you see any benefit for the Pakistani people.

Anyone else heard of US army wheat? How about British army olives? Wait what of even Indian army sugar cane? Me neither.

What a pathetic state of affairs.
The duffers will even botch this enterprise. Their productivity and efficiency will be lowest in the region and will then force the civilian gov'ts to subsidize their under performance. Much like how sugar mafia and other feudals operate in the sepoyland.

Foreign Agents hate that PM Shehbaz Sharif and COAS Asim Munir does productive things instead of the unproductive things that their Prophet Imran Khan (BPUH) loves to do.
Name one fauji run enterprise that's productive and competes at the global level?
 
The duffers will even botch this enterprise. Their productivity and efficiency will be lowest in the region and will then force the civilian gov'ts to subsidize their under performance. Much like how sugar mafia and other feudals operate in the sepoyland.


Name one fauji run enterprise that's productive and competes at the global level?

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People on PDF are not realising the advantages that would accrue to Pakistan as a result of this initiative so I would try to shed some list a few advantages:
  1. Armed forces normally allow entry into their areas on proving identity. Since insects and other pest have no CNIC, they will not be allowed entry due to which we would have high yields.
  2. Our intelligence agency is number 1 in the world. They will have prior information about the movement of pests and would destroy them preemptively again resulting in high yields.
  3. The physical exercises performed the forces would result in automatic levelling of land without the need of using advanced machinery.
  4. The strict routine practised by the forces would ensure that the crops get the required nutrients in a timely manner resulting in healthier crops.
  5. The forces can arrest clouds in the sky in case they do not provide the required rainfall so there would not be any shortage of water at all.
Hope this would result in creating the a better understanding of the effects of the initiative.
 
Everyone is missing the point here.. All these visits by whisky muneer to gulf and then the announcing of so called corporate farming. Essentially gulfies paying for land to produce crops for their own food security, gulfies manage everything in exchange Faujeets get paid for ground rent which should go to the national coffers.. but instead Faujeets are lining their own pockets and throwing some scraps in the way of PDM to keep them on board…

Mark my words whisky munir will also follow his masters footsteps and retire a billionaire…
 
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Youthyas ko bus is baat k ilawa Kuch passand NAHI ik Bushra bibi aur farah gogi

This will probably revolutionize farming in pk in next couple of years



The other non-military institutions that Pak Army owns, what kind of revolutions they have brought till date in their respective sectors? How many billions of dollars have they contributed towards national exchequer till date? Where is all the money going from all these institutions?

Heck PA is not new to corporate farming, please shed some light on the revolution they have already bought to corporate farming?

Mark my words whisky munir will also follow his masters footsteps and retire a billionaire…



Future billionaire:


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