FAISALABAD, Jan 28: The agriculture experts and research scholars should make efforts to market crops so as to obliterate financial worries of the farmers.

This was stated by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor, Dr Ishrat Husain, while talking to directors, scientists and academics at the local University of Agriculture, here on Monday.

The SBP chief stressed the need for launching an organized marketing policy for agricultural products in the country with the consultation of private sector.

He said the Indian research scientists, who got training in the university, excelled in mapping a route to the development in the field.

Wrong policies of the previous governments and granting agricultural loans to favourites pushed the economy to the lowest, he claimed, adding the steps created hordes of problems for the exporters and others.

He disclosed the federal government was contemplating over minimizing the interference of the food department in marketing and other matters so as to ensure maximum benefits to the farmers.

‘We could achieve the goal of self-sufficiency in food by dint of hard work in marketing of crops on modern lines’, he said.

Earlier, university Vice Chancellor Dr Riaz Husain Qureshi threw light on the research activities being carried out in the institution. He said 114 research groups had been established under the tutelage of experienced teachers for evolving policies in harness with times.

He informed the participants that efforts were being made for providing information and structure of marketing to the exporters and other businessmen in the country.

Those associated with research were denied any remuneration, he said. Agricultural graduates should be given loans on soft term basis so that they could do justice to their assignments, Mr Qureshi opined.