Sunday, July 19, 2009

Government to set up marketing, processing infrastructure for agriculture products

FAISALABAD (July 18 2009): The Federal Government has decided to establish Agricultural Products Marketing and Processing Infrastructure on the basis of the experience of world's best infrastructure holding agriculture marketing countries.

According to Planning Commission sources, this project aims at providing food security, ensuring farmer's profitability, reduction of post-harvest loses, and access to premium national and international markets by integration of value chain system of farms' inputs, outputs and finance and implementation of quality standards. The proposed investment would be divided into three major areas of farm supplies and services, grain infrastructure, and perishables infrastructure

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