Staff Reporter
Lahore
Minister for Agriculture Punjab Malik Nouman Ahmed Langrial while presiding a meeting of large gathering of farmers on Wednesday has stated that under directive of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Punjab Usman Bazdar has started a program to increase the production of wheat per acre with worth of Rs 9 billion in province.
Minister for Agriculture, Punjab has further stated that Punjab Government has a vision to make the province a “Grain House” for rest of the country.
On this occasion, Minister for Agriculture, Punjab advised farmers to cultivate wheat with a standard and certified seed of Punjab Seed Corporation to get a bumper crop of wheat.
Seminar was attended by Ejaz Ahmad Diyal, Dr. Anjum Ali Director General (Ext & AR), Mudassar Abbas Director Agriculture Information Punjab, Advisor to Minister for Agriculture Shahid Qadir and a large gathering of farming community.
Minster said that the farmers should follow the recommendations of the department of agriculture to increase the production of wheat as there are doctors and officers of the fields in the department.
Wherever the farmer should advise, he should contact the field officers of the agriculture department. He said that officers have been instructed to listen to give respect to the farmers.
