{"id":69464,"date":"2020-08-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=69464"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:33:17","slug":"national-action-plan-formed-modernise-agriculture-sector-cpec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/national-action-plan-formed-modernise-agriculture-sector-cpec.html","title":{"rendered":"National Action Plan formed to modernise agriculture sector under CPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The federal government on Wednesday prepared a National Action Plan for the modernisation of the agriculture sector \u2014 with the initiative falling under the auspices of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-begins-making-its-own-drones-to-facilitate-agriculture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan begins making its own drones to facilitate agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources revealed that the plan for the modernisation of the agriculture sector focuses on issues that impede the country\u2019s agricultural output. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Locust control<\/li><li>Exchange of agriculture experts<\/li><li>Germ plasma resource exchange<\/li><li>Pest &amp; disease control satellite station<\/li><li>Aqua culture &amp; shrimp farming<\/li><li>Fisheries<\/li><li>Post-harvest food processing technologies<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing a two-year performance report, the government officials concerned revealed that work had been initiated on the Kachhi Canal Phase II project. They added that the second phase of the project would assist in irrigating 216,000 acres of land. They also highlighted that the project had the capacity to turn large tracts of land in Balochistan into a food basket. This would be a source for food for not only the people of the province, but for the rest of the country as well, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-launches-apps-calculate-taxes-property-agriculture-income.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh launches apps to calculate taxes on property, agriculture income<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, Phase I of Kachhi Canal has already reached completion \u2014 irrigating 7,200 acres of fertile land and increasing cropping intensity from 4% to 80%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government on Wednesday prepared a National Action Plan for the modernisation of the agriculture sector \u2014 with the initiative falling under the auspices of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a news source reported. Read: Pakistan begins making its own drones to facilitate agriculture Sources revealed that the plan for the modernisation of the agriculture sector focuses on issues that impede the country\u2019s agricultural output. These include: Locust control Exchange of agriculture experts Germ plasma resource exchange Pest &amp; disease control satellite station Aqua culture &amp; shrimp farming Fisheries Post-harvest food processing technologies Sharing a two-year performance report, the government officials concerned revealed that work had been initiated on the Kachhi Canal Phase II project. They added that the second phase of the project would assist in irrigating 216,000 acres of land. They also highlighted that the project had the capacity to turn large tracts of land in Balochistan into a food basket. This would be a source for food for not only the people of the province, but for the rest of the country as well, they said. Read: Sindh launches apps to calculate taxes on property, agriculture income According to sources, Phase I of Kachhi Canal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012],"tags":[37449],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"tag-details-on-national-action-plan-formed-to-modernise-agriculture-sector-under-cpec","9":"cat-15012-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Action Plan for modernisation of agriculture sector- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Federal government has prepared a National Action Plan for modernisation of the agriculture sector \u2014 with the initiative falling under the auspices of CPEC.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/national-action-plan-formed-modernise-agriculture-sector-cpec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Action Plan for modernisation of agriculture sector- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Federal government has prepared a National Action Plan for modernisation of the agriculture sector \u2014 with the initiative falling under the auspices of CPEC.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/national-action-plan-formed-modernise-agriculture-sector-cpec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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