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Farming households in Khyber and Kurram agencies of FATA have received assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the help of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to rebuild their lives as they continue to return to their homes after years of displacement.A total of...

FAO Representative Minà Dowlatchahi presented the Soil Fertility Atlas for Punjab to Minister for National Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan, USAID Mission Director Jerry Bisson and Chairman Pakistan Agricultural Research Council Dr. Yusuf Zafar at the Project Concluding and Atlas launch ceremony held at the National Agricultural...

KARACHI - “Sindh Province’s Soil Fertility Atlas" was launched in Karachi on July 17 at a local hotel in Karachi . This launch is part of a partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council...

Islamabad: Good quality seeds are important for enhancing farmers’ productivity and eventually ensuring food security but emerging technologies have created the need for capacity building of involved professionals and reforms in the seed sector in Pakistan.Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under its project, “Building Capacity of...

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has initiated a project with the Government of Punjab to identify the relationship between smog and the practice of crop residue burning practices by farmers in the rice wheat belt of Punjab. An inception workshop for this initiative R-SMOG (Remote Sensing...