KARACHI, June 25: The State Bank on Wednesday organised an inter-provincial agricultural workshop at Learning Resource Centre with a view to disseminating and sharing federal and provincial governments’ initiatives, experiences, projects and their plans to strengthen the farm sector.

The workshop was the first of its kind organised by Development Finance Support department of SBP-BSC and it was attended by senior officials of the ministry of food, agriculture and livestock (Minfal) and provincial agricultural and revenue departments and heads of agro-finance departments of 15 commercial banks.

The officials of agricultural and revenue departments of each of the four provinces and AJK made detailed presentations on their respective plans and projects for facilitating the farming community for increasing their productivity.

It was decided that the SBP-BSC would organise farmers’ meetings/farm melas in collaboration with banks in different villages and would invite provincial agricultural departments’ officials in all such programmes.

The possibility of establishing banks’ booths at the ‘Agri Service Centres’ being established in major towns of Sindh would be explored.