National Pesticides Residues Monitoring System (NPRMS) will be set up with a cost of Rs 20 million to check the quality and standard of pesticides and other chemicals used in agri-sector. Rs 500 million will be spent in "Wheat maximisation programme" to increase wheat production to fulfil the domestic consumption of wheat as well as to export.
The federal government has planned to spend Rs 1503.224 million on ten new schemes in food agriculture and livestock sector to further boost production of the sector. A spokesman of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) said here on Tuesday that government has allocated a huge amount of about Rs 20,515.876 million for the development of agriculture sector for the financial year 2008-09.
He said special attention would be paid in crop and livestock sector to enhance crop and livestock production by introducing modern techniques of cultivation and to give trend to cultivate hybrid seeds to increase per hectare crop production.
Rs 18 million will be spent on establishment of "monitoring of crop through satellite technology" to provide latest information to the growers of far-flung areas of the country and to protect the crop from insect attack, he added. Every year, a lot of area, under cotton crop is attacked by a deadly insect called Mealy bug and destroy the crop, this year Rs 150.224 million will be spent for eradication of the insect, he added.