BAHAWALPUR: Farmers have been urged to sow pulses at maximum level to boost agro-economy and to get financial benefits from the standing crops.
This was said in a meeting of officials and researchers of the Agriculture Department, Government of Punjab which was chaired by Secretary, Agriculture Department, Iftikhar Ali Saho at the Agriculture Department office here Sunday.
The meeting was apprised that there was a great demand of different varieties of pulses at national as well as international market. ‘Local market of the country has also huge capacity for pulses,’ it was told.
Addressing the meeting, the Secretary Agriculture said that pulses not only met protein demand of human body but it also helped in making society healthy. He urged the farmers’ community to sow all varieties of pulses at maximum level. ‘Th Punjab Agriculture Department is ready to extend all its cooperation to growers in this regard,’ he said.