Concern over decline in farmers’ income

Islamabad

Agriculture experts at a seminar organised here on Saturday by the Institution of Engineers Pakistan, Rawalpindi-Islamabad Center (IEP-RIC) expressed serious concern over decline in farmers’ income and less use of advanced technology that was resulting in poor per acre yield of various crops and growing poverty in rural areas.

World renowned agriculture Shaukat Khan who had been associated with World Bank, USAID and other international institutions in his key-note addressed cautioned that the non-seriousness and disintegrated approach at the government’s level towards agriculture could bring disastrous impact on country’s overall economy. It was an interactive seminar, presided over by the Chairman of IEP-RIC Eng. Hafiz M. Ehsanul Haq Qazi. Prominent engineers Arjumund Shaikh and Prof. Dr. Attaullah Shah (Vice Chancellor of City University) also took part in the discussion, underlying the need of paying greater attention to agriculture to get rid of poverty.