Speakers at a workshop called for adopting precise agriculture policy to make the sector profitable and to meet the demand of increasing population that will double by 2050. They addressed the concluding session of workshop titled precision agriculture arranged by US Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security, University of Agriculture Faisalabad.
The session was chaired by USPCAS Chief of Party Dr Bahir Ahmad Khan while Dean Faculty of Agricultural Engineering Dr Allah Buksh, USPCAS Precision Agriculture Chair Dr Jahanzeb Masood Cheema and other notables also spoke on the occasion. Addressing on the occasion, Dr Bashir Ahmad said that farming community was suffering due to different challenges facing the sector. He said that it is need of the hour to adopt the modern agriculture practices to make it the profitable.
He stressed upon the need to create the awareness among the farming community about increasing the per acre production. He said that the country was having the fertile land, best agro zones and hardworking people. He said that traditional way of the farming is barring the farmers to get the fruits from the potential.