Revolutionary Steps for AGRI DEVELOPMENT

Wheat-Importing Province now an Exporter of wheat.
-- To promote latest agricultural techniques, small farmers given Rs 200,000 to Rs 300,000 subsidy on each of total 17,000 tractors
-- Under Benazir Youth Development Programme, 4,116 unemployed youths trained in various agricultural areas to pave way for Green Revolution
-- Farmers provided 986 low-cost threshers, 250 laser levellers and installation of 1,762 tube wells
-- 53,266 hectors land made cultivatable through purchase of 32 bulldozers
-- Provision of sprinkle system for 2,590 acres, drip irrigation system for 1,025 acres and rain guns for 2,296 acres of small growers' land
-- Provision of hybrid seed to farmers that enhanced yield of cotton, sugarcane, onion, ladyfinger and pepper
-- Wheat yield enhanced manifolds due to latest agricultural system that turned a wheat-importing province into wheat exporter. Moreover, cotton production upped by 60 percent
-- Construction of small dams to meet water needs of Sindh
-- Successful policy of compensation on mechanised cultivation and fodders. Increase in production of all crops, especially rice. Irri-6 export fetched $500 million foreign exchange
-- Construction of new roads made easy access to market that paved way to agricultural revolution
-- 3,000 farmers trained under Integrated Pest Management Programme
-- Refresher courses arranged for farmers at Sakrand Agricultural Training Institute
-- Two varieties of wheat, Hamal-3 and Benazir-30, introduced that promises 2,800kg and 3,400kg per acre yield respectively
-- Chandka variety of sugarcane introduced that would give from 52,000kg to 60,000kg per acre average yield
Under annual developmental programme 2014-15
Induction of modern resources of Research and Irrigation with the budget of Rs 2 billion and 50 crore for the development of Agricultural Department and also completion of on-going and new projects for the guidance of farmers