Agriculture: suicide or survival

With a population of over 190 million and growing, Pakistan is under increasing pressure on many fronts with food production, the provision of water, power and the raw materials necessary to keep the indigenous manufacturing industry up and running, obviously of paramount concern along with, it goes without saying, vast increases in the heath care, education and housing sectors too which, considered en mass, is an astronomical problem indeed.

The agricultural industry has always, since the country’s inception, been the backbone on which all else depends and, with a burgeoning population to feed - a frightening percentage of which is already malnourished due to a combination of escalating inflation and nutritional ignorance - a massive boost in food production is an emergency essential.