The Diplomatic Insight _ January 2020
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departments in the latest
technologies and practices in the
world especially from China.
Pakistan’s agriculture sector is
facing multifarious challenges
in seeds, use of water resources,
and lack of modern agricultural
technology. Therefore, it is
imperative for Pakistan to
improve cooperation with
China in agricultural research,
developing business to business
model for cooperation in crops
variety technologies; processing
and storage and capacity
building trainings related to
agriculture sector.
Pakistan has great potential
for enhancing its agricultural
products, especially foods,
fibers, and raw materials
including food items such as
cereals (grains), vegetables,
fruits, oils, meat, milk, and
eggs. Similarly, there is a great
potential for the promotion
of agricultural by-products.
This potential can be realized
in cooperation with Chinese
companies by co-branding and
co-marketing of agricultural
products.
Pakistan’s farmers are lacking of
high tech machinery relating to
farming, it is vitally important
to import farming machinery
and equipment from China.
To improve the productivity
of all sub-sectors of agriculture
namely: crops; livestock
both production and animal
health); fisheries and forestry.
There is dire need to develop
a comprehensive strategy
in coordination with all the
relevant departments and
stakeholders to avoid any
negative fallout of cooperation
with Chinese companies and to
ensure a win-win situation.
A sustainable policy framework
would be required to achieve
the desired targets such as bring
average yield of a commodity
closer to the world average
level; reducing post-harvest
losses from 50-3o percent to
25-10 percent; bring exportproduction
ratio near to the
world average ratio; bringing
the Pakistan’s export price near
to the world average; bringing
prices of 10% of the commodity
sold within the country equal
to the imported/exported price
of the commodity; increasing
processing and value addition;
and reducing cost by adopting
mechanized operation on certain
areas. Pakistan Agricultural
Research Council may be tasked
to formulate a strategy under a
national agricultural policy to
achieve the desired results.
A consultative series of
dialogues and conversation
should be started including
series of awareness raising
seminars, dialogue conversation
for concrete recommendations
in every sector of agriculture
and then finally a national
level conference followed by an
international conference may
be organized to galvanized
strength of Pakistan to not
only for effective utilization
public, private and corporate
agriculture resources of
Pakistan. These resources may
be presented to the international
community with regular
diplomatic engagements with
the diplomatic community
residing in Islamabad.
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