Unless agriculture is restored to the centre of fiscal planning, Pakistan risks undermining its food security as well as its economic future.
Updated08 Jun, 202607:52am
Locally sourced produce often suffers from inconsistent quality, uncertain supply, and daily price fluctuations, creating significant operational uncertainty for processors.
Published01 Jun, 202608:02am
Pakistan’s agriculture sector possesses sufficient potential to feed the country’s population with its existing resources; the core problem lies in misplaced priorities.
Published18 May, 202607:45am
As prices recover and farmers begin to receive better returns, the government is resorting to measures that run counter to market economy and deregulation principles.
Updated04 May, 202607:45am
The rapid shift towards capital-intensive harvesting is transferring income from small farmers and labourers to machinery service providers, further widening the rich-poor gap.
Published27 Apr, 202608:42am
With high fertiliser prices, additional input costs tend to outweigh incremental returns, which in turn leads to a decline in...
Published06 Apr, 202608:38am
Even if RLNG-based plants were to shut down, existing urea stocks, along with ongoing local production, are likely sufficient for the upcoming Kharif season.
Published30 Mar, 202609:35am
In view of the evolving landscape of the agriculture sector, Pakistan is in dire need of the right technologies to enhance its agricultural resilience.
Updated16 Mar, 202610:12am
Destroying mature crops in the face of overproduction or a weak market is a waste of the country’s resources and a clear sign of systemic failure.
Updated09 Feb, 202608:02am
Potato sector stands as a classic example of policy and planning failures in the agriculture sector that result in the waste of the country’s precious resources.
Updated02 Feb, 202608:09am
The country must move from its focus on improving yields to growing a wide range of high-value crops with comparative advantages.
Updated19 Jan, 202607:50am
The suspension of exports has slashed farm-gate citrus prices by 50–80pc, while the inability to export potatoes is triggering a market crash.
Published05 Jan, 202607:32am
An underwhelming seed sector, water insecurity and a narrow agri export market will pose challenges to the sector in the coming
Published29 Dec, 202505:56am
The weak sanitary and phytosanitary standards Pakistan abided by to export agricultural products to Afghanistan have made farmers complacent and incapable of producing quality crops that may be traded elsewhere.
Updated22 Dec, 202511:12am
