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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.

THE DIPLOMATIC INSIGHT•27

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