ISLAMABAD: President Kissan Ittehad Council (KIC) Khalid Mehmood Khokhar hailed the incumbent government’s revolutionary initiative ‘Green Pakistan’ for reviving the agriculture economy, enhancing food security by replacing typical agricultural processes with contemporary agriculture technologies with a focus on rural areas.
Talking to a leading media outlet here on Friday, Khokhar said the initiative was also aimed at offering huge opportunities to farmers and growers to reduce poverty through enhance yields and creating new green jobs, particularly in the rural areas, ensuring food security on a sustainable basis, and significantly reduce the economic and environmental costs of agriculture.
Pakistan’s agricultural industry would now be revolutionized under this program that would utilize the knowledge, research, abilities, and technological advancements of several organizations together with contemporary irrigation techniques.
He further emphasized the importance of research and developments in the new farming paradigm, adding that linking these improvements for the development of rural areas to generate new sources of income for farmers and youth.
Khalid Mehmood Khokhar also expressed hope that the ‘Green Pakistan’ initiative would revive the agricultural economy of the country as a whole and would help pave the way for progress and prosperity in the country. —APP
