Our Correspondent DI Khan
Federal Minister for Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Affairs, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur here Thursday said the pro-agriculture policies and projects completed by PTI Government had brought revolution in agriculture and livestock sectors of Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
The minister said this while addressing a farmers’ convention here. Ali Amin Khan Gandapur in his key note address said agriculture and livestock was a cornerstone of policies of PTI government in KP where a record number of projects had been completed to bolster agriculture productivity and increase income of the farmers.
He said when PTI government took over in 2013, accorded highest priorities to agriculture and livestock sectors by establishing a network of watercourses and canals for extracting water from Gomal Zam Dam to irrigate thousands of acres of infertile lands in southern districts including DI Khan.
As result, he said today 70 percent land in DI Khan and adjoining districts were being irrigated, which were making positive effects on the province’s economy, bolstering of the farmers income and ensure food security.
The minister said the remaining areas of southern districts including DI Khan would be irrigated after completion of command areas’ project of Gomal Zam Dam inaugurated today by the prime minister.
Around two lac acres areas would be irrigated in DI Khan and adjoining districts after completion of Gomal Zam Dam’s command area project, he added.
Terming Kisan Cards, a landmark project of PTI Government, he said it would help encourage low income farmers and agriculture growers to invest and expend their crops’ cultivation programs and discourage residential colonies on agriculture lands.
He said Imran Khan, the only Prime Minister was working for socioeconomic uplift of labourers, poorer and farmers, adding the Prime Minister’s National Agriculture Program had brought very positive effects on lives of the farmers and bolster agriculture as well as livestock productivity in KP.
The minister said farmers and sugarcane growers had been freed from clutches of Sugar Mafia after PTI Government laid strong hand on the latter and resultantly, the farmers of KP got substantial profit of their crops in recent years.
He said when PTI government assumed power in 2018, the country was at the verge of bankruptcy by facing a huge economic deficit to tune of USD 20 billion and loans burden of USD 10.5 billion.
