LAHORE: The federal government has announced a two-tier intervention strategy under a plan to transform the agriculture sector to boost its growth measured at 2.77 per cent during the year despite large-scale losses in cotton crop.
The Economic Survey of Pakistan 2020-21 released on Thursday identifies shrinking arable land, climate change, water shortages and labour shift from rural to urban areas as main constraints in the growth of the agriculture sector.
To overcome the limitations, the government has approved an action plan with specific timeline for interventions, yield gaps and particular sectoral issues in a two-tier strategy to be implemented both by the federation and federating units.
To achieve the targets of cotton revival, olive deepening, and genetic improvement in livestock, the first generation interventions aim at bridging yield gaps, suggesting revisit of the criteria for induction, performance, evaluation and cancellation of seed companies, delineating separate requirements for local seed producers and importers with mandatory local seed production by the latter.