Hyderabad: Introducing of new agriculture techniques is necessary to make Sindh province a grain basket of Pakistan and 4000 farmers of the province have already been given training in modern horticulture. Fourteen of these farmers were sent abroad for advanced training, said Director Sindh Agriculture Growth Project Hidayatullah Chajjro.
Talking to media here, he said agriculture provides 21percent of our GDP. He said economy of Sindh depends on agriculture and without modernizing agriculture methods a rapid progress and prosperity of this province would be very difficult.
He said they are presently focusing to boost four major cash crops of Sindh: Red chillies, onions, dates and rice. He said 112000 farmers are being covered under this program who will cultivate an area of about 66000 acres with the use of modern techniques.