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o Farm Waste Control: A comprehensive mechanism in KPK. The following suggestions are offered to
should be designed to control waste during on-farm improve productivity to ensure food security.
and off-farm activities. o Flood Management: Recent oods destroyed 30%
o Land Reforms: These reforms should be implemented to 80% of crops in ood-affected districts. Flood
in the true sense to transfer and protect the rights of prediction and ood control systems should be
tenants. established to save crops from destruction.
PUNJAB o High-Value Crop Transition: Due to small holdings,
There is no major problem in Punjab that hampers the KPK agriculture should be diverted to high-value
overall productivity. Even then it is comparatively much crops from conventional crops to enable farmers to
increase their incomes.
behind the productivity of advanced countries. Best
canal system exists in Punjab which meets the basic o Northern Livestock Development: Most of the
requirement for agriculture productivity. Even then, a northern areas of KPK comprise mountains and
few suggestions are offered at the operational level for hills. Livestock has more potential than crops to
waste control. increase the income of individuals, enabling them
to afford health, education, housing and food.
o Productivity and Diversi cation: Improvement in
productivity, water management, introduction of BALOCHISTAN
new technology, fertilizer, medicated seeds and The Baluchistan agriculture sector mostly depends on
diversi cation of crops. rain-fed surface run-off water. The old Karez system is
o Harvest and Labour Management: The major vanishing slowly. The following suggestions are offered
problem, as gathered from local people, lies at the for improvement of agriculture.
harvest stage, not at the sowing and growing stage. o Karez System Revival: Revival of the Karez system
The conventional tenant system has been of irrigation will reduce irrigation costs, which can
disappearing slowly and gradually. These tenants be utilized in fruit production.
were available round the clock to handle all stages
o Mini Dam Construction: Baluchistan accounts for
from cultivation to harvest. Secondly, the cutting
and threshing period is limited to no more than 12 around 43% of the total area of Pakistan. The
construction of mini dams, to store the surface run-
days. Now, in the absence of tenants, labour is not
off water, is the only solution to increase agriculture
available to all farmers when cutting and threshing
machines are needed during this limited period. A productivity to ensure food security in the long run.
formal and professional company or companies o Livestock Industrialisation: Livestock should be
should be established to provide all services under declared a separate industry and incentives should
one umbrella to all farmers within the 12-day period be provided for rearing animals and promoting
to control waste. animal husbandry.
KPK POTOHAR
The agriculture-related problems of KPK are different Potohar, which comprises four districts (Rawalpindi,
from those of Punjab and Sindh. Water shortage, ood, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal), is the most neglected area
small holdings, poor governance and slow adaptability
for agriculture despite great potential of both
are a few of the distinct features of the agriculture sector

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