World's biggest population looks towards Pakistan for food.

[Trango Towers]

all will go down the drain if this stupid govt doesn't find a way to control inflation --- cost of cultivation is becoming unbearable for the small farmers.

I love this....governmnet is stupid ywt you people have robbed this nation since 1947 but its the fault of 2 month old government

 

[SuvarnaTeja]

Very impressive but not forget smaller and medium class farmers give them all facilitation from easy processing loan free technical education for farming crops and a necesarry water

Unfortunately, corporations and capitalists do not work that way.

British encouraged and forced Indian farmers to grow Tobacco, Cotton and Tea instead of food grains even as Indians were dying with famine.

Chinese eat Rice not Wheat. Will Pakistan stop growing wheat and start producing Rice and Soya beans to export to Chinese?

 

[randomradio]

Unfortunately, corporations and capitalists do not work that way.

British encouraged and forced Indian farmers to grow Tobacco, Cotton and Tea instead of food grains even as Indians were dying with famine.

Chinese eat Rice not Wheat. Will Pakistan stop growing wheat and start producing Rice and Soya beans to export to Chinese?

Yep, no point giving up land and then getting all that food exported.

They are better off making cash crops for export.

 

[Solomon2]

This is the best way forward. Pakistan agriculture is still primitive after 70 years of independence and is a national shame.

Worse than that: Pakistan reverted. My 1960s-vintage Britannica has a photograph of South Koreans visiting Pakistan to absorb the latest agricultural farming techniques.

 

[shah_123]

I love this....governmnet is stupid ywt you people have robbed this nation since 1947 but its the fault of 2 month old government

I haven't robbed even a single Paisa of this nation. ------ 2 months old or 2 days old, priorities set by this govt shows they are stupid.

 

[maximuswarrior]

Huge huge opportunity for Pakistan. China can help Pakistan massively in this regard.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Huge huge opportunity for Pakistan. China can help Pakistan massively in this regard.

And, in so many other sectors....

 

[AZ1]

I haven't robbed even a single Paisa of this nation. ------ 2 months old or 2 days old, priorities set by this govt shows they are stupid.

oh mr shah who holds 5 govt of 5 countries wokeup today after last 10 years of sleep revealing the govt priority is not set. Problem with people like you is you can not be satisfied in ur life. If you get too much u complain why and if you dont get in ur life yet you say why and hence cry goes on.

 

[jupiter2007]

We must be careful. No foreign owned farms, no leasing of farm land, no foreign workers on the farms.

Farming is the easiest industry for us to expand. The idiots in government should use state land to make state owned farms and hire farmers on a salary to make produce. These farms should be managed by people with qualifications in horticulture, agriculture and ecology.

Introducing new technology and techniques will give better results. We have so much land that can be used for farming. We can get water to Sindh and Balochistan where is still not available, we can do so much that Agri products will be enough to uplift our economy.

 

[AZ1]

Problem with us (Pakistani) is they want everything from other and they don't want to give nothing. This is not how trade works.

For example : We have huge deposit of gold but we want other country to do the hard work for us and in return we will give them penny and be happy.

Same will be done with oil if found. Oh look XYZ company is taking away oil and giving us nothing.

Why would other country even interested in us if deal is not more beneficial to them rather than us?

With such positive news coming we have now criticizing already don't do this don't do that xyz and if this thinking doesn't change then end will not be good.

 

[royalharris]

For this, China needs to finance Bhasha Dam first. We need plenty of water for agriculture on a mass scale and we can use Chinese hybrid seeds for the crops dedicated for export to China only.

All the world are looking for exporting agriculture products to china，russia、canada、brasil、australia、argentina、even india and so on
USA farmers are crying for exporting agriculture products to china before trump now

if pak can provide good agriculture products，we can give the highest priority

Now it is a good business opportunity for pakistani agriculture sector，the problem is would you and can you grab it

Grow up，boy

 

[Pakistansdefender]

In other words, China will be taking control over agricultural lands in Pakistan.

Pakistanis should be given a physiological treatment. All of them. They can never look at anything positively.
Pointing out faults in every perfect thing has become our habit.

 

[Kabira]

Forget about exports. Pakistan import billions of $ food items. Was watching Tareen interview today, he made a good point. Increase yield/production per acre of major crops like wheat, sugar, cotton to international standard. That will leave around 4-5 million acres of good land with water to cultivate oil seeds, etc

This is from existing land under cultivation. With drip irrigation lot more land can be brought under cultivation.

Cotton needs very good soil and less humidity or water at least it requires 100 water free days. In some areas of toba the cotton crop is good but bad in most areas. They should only cultivate small pockets and test different seeds which suits them. The best thing is to use gypsum or 2323 fertilizer it help with salinity problem to some extent. I have been to toba and citrus farming is good as it can handle bitterness. I will check for more and tag you regarding to toba.

Do you think with drip irrigation that semi desert area of Thal can be irrigated in future? Not water hungry wheat but crops like cotton.

 

[ziaulislam]

Forget about exports. Pakistan import billions of $ food items. Was watching Tareen interview today, he made a good point. Increase yield/production per acre of major crops like wheat, sugar, cotton to international standard. That will leave around 4-5 million acres of good land with water to cultivate oil seeds, etc

This is from existing land under cultivation. With drip irrigation lot more land can be brought under cultivation.



Do you think with drip irrigation that semi desert area of Thal can be irrigated in future? Not water hungry wheat but crops like cotton.

Pakistan has 140 MAF of aversge flow
Now whole nile is just 50MAF
California barely has 40 MAF but it produces 20x of Pakistan production

Why?
Old system of flood irrigation and
Poor yield production

We have enough land in all four provinces that can brought under cultivation with excellent weather (hot)

We need 200-300 billion rupees in investment every year in this department

 

[haidian]

Chinese eat Rice not Wheat. Will Pakistan stop growing wheat and start producing Rice and Soya beans to export to Chinese?

Who told you that? You know nothing about China. Northern Chinese prefer wheat and southerners rice, it's the basic knowledge of China.

Xinjiang wheat harvest