PESHAWAR, Oct 22: NWFP Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Qari Mehmood has urged farm experts to use modern scientific techniques to enhance farm production.

The minister was speaking at a one-day seminar on wheat at Batkhela in Malakand on Wednesday, says a handout.

The provincial government had planned to introduce a new farm policy and offer more incentives to farmers in order to improve their living standard and give the economy a boost, he said.

Meanwhile, the provincial agriculture department has supplied 2,700 tons of quality seeds of wheat to all farms services centres and agricultural offices across the province.

According to an official, the department had planned to cultivate wheat on 732,000 hectares throughout the province in the upcoming wheat-sowing season.