RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: The Punjab Agriculture Department and Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) Boston have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide weather forecast to the growers through their smart phones.

Speaking on this occasion, Director General Agriculture (Extension) Zafar Yab Haider said that the growers would be provided latest information on contemporary production technologies and weather patterns. This would help the growers to manage their crop in a better way to achieve more per acre yield. He said the growers had to learn the latest technology to get advantage of this facility.

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the provincial agriculture department has claimed that the province would achieve the wheat production target of 19.5 million tons this year. The growers brought about 16.6 million acres of land under wheat sowing during the season 2016-17 and despite all weather odds chances are bright to achieve the production target.

He said 382 procurement centers had been set up in the province for wheat procurement so as the growers could get full compensation of their labour. The spokesman urged the growers to use combined harvester for harvesting and threshing of the crop to avoid the post harvest losses.