Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Khan Gandapur on Thursday called for developing the livestock sector on modern lines for employment generation. Chairing a meeting of Livestock Department he said that there is a lot of potential in the livestock sector to provide employment opportunities to people and increase the income of the province.
The CM directed that a comprehensive and feasible plan should be prepared for this purpose, to increase dairy products and work on value addition of these products. He also emphasized on organizing a program to provide modern training to people in the livestock sector. He directed that in relation to the increase in dairy products, a program should be set up to provide interest-free loans to people for rearing good breed of cattle.
He called for introducing modern technology in the livestock sector, especially fisheries. In the meeting, the chief minister was briefed on the department’s administrative affairs, development projects, reforms, future plans and other related issues. Meanwhile Chief Minister (CM) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur Thursday held an important meeting of the Irrigation Department and assigned them new tasks to introduce a modern irrigation system in the province.
He directed the construction of artificial dams to make maximum barren land cultivable in the province besides introducing a system of cluster tube wells for artificial dams. The research process in the agriculture sector should be made productive, the CM said. Making the province self-sufficient in agricultural commodities is the top priority of the provincial government, the Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur told the meeting. For this purpose, he said important projects should be worked on to irrigate millions of acres of barren land in the southern districts.
