Image via WikipediaKARACHI (APP): The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Gender and Social Development Directorate is playing an important role for addressing the challenges of food insecurity in flood-affected areas in collaboration with local partners/organisations.
The spokesman maintained that the PARC planned well and implementation its strategy for sowing wheat crop and successfully arranged sowing on about 50,000 acres of land in the districts of Jamshoro, Dadu, Jacobabad and Shikarpur and also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) particularly district Chitral.
A spokesman of the organisation said on Sunday that the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council’s Gender and Social Development Directorate has successfully socially mobilised all the network members and partners in Sindh such as Women Welfare Association (WWA), Eco-Conservation Initiatives (ECI), Fundamental Ideas Navigators (FIN) and carried out need assessment of the flood affected Haris/small farmers having agricultural land below 25 acres.
In this connection liaison was established with the respective district governments of the target areas who provided support to G&SDD/PARC in logistics for distribution of wheat seed.
In addition to this, local farmers also extended their all out support facilitating the field teams in fair distribution of wheat seed and timely sowing of the wheat crop.
The spokesman maintained that the PARC planned well and implementation its strategy for sowing wheat crop and successfully arranged sowing on about 50,000 acres of land in the districts of Jamshoro, Dadu, Jacobabad and Shikarpur and also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) particularly district Chitral.
He said that the PARC scientists are not only providing on-farm technical support and building capacity of the farmers during sowing of the wheat crop but also monitoring the wheat crops from the stage of sowing up to harvesting.
PARC is also playing an important role for rehabilitation of the flood affected areas and in collaboration with partners has planned to establish three model villages in the flood-affected areas.
To begin with, identification and selection of the sites has been carried out. All the inputs/materials will be provided to the affected villages by the partners and the local inhabitants, the spokesman added.
He said that the local inhabitants would also be responsible to provide required labor for reconstruction and rehabilitation of the sites as model villages. app
