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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will help Pakistan financially in building grain storage capacity in order to promote research on seeds and biotechnology. Also, the USAID has shown interest in supporting agricultural universities as well as building and revamping the irrigation system for sustaining Pakistan’s agricultural economy.
The decision took place on Thursday in a meeting between USAID’s Country Head to Pakistan, Robert Wilson, and Pakistan’s Minister for Food and Agriculture Nawaz Gondal. Mr. Wilson said that USAID could help in the construction of small dams in Balochistan and other parts of the country. Particularly hopeful is USAID’s willingness to formulate a detailed plan, in collaboration with the provincial government of NWFP, for giving relief to the war-stricken farmers of Malakand. This will broadly include restructuring and rehabilitating of the agricultural system that has been affected by the military and war in the area.
The initiative on behalf of the USAID, towards building a productive agricultural system through research and technological application, is commendable not only as an effort of salvaging the country’s slipping economy but as a gesture of the international community’s concern for the country’s future.
