LAHORE, March 11: The Punjab will share agricultural knowledge with other provinces by developing three model villages in Sindh and one in Balochistan, Governor Khalid Maqbool said on Monday.

Talking to delegations of farmers from Sindh here, the governor said that the four provinces have agrarian economies. “It is essential to pool agricultural knowledge to increase national wealth and improve people’s living.”

Visits by farmers, he said, would help understand each others problems in addition to sharing knowledge. Agriculture must become an industry for which special attention should be given to marketing techniques and crop improvement.

The Punjab government was trying to provide adulteration-free pesticides to farmers and provision of loans on easy terms.

The Punjab and Sindh, both facing waters shortages, must adopt techniques like laser levelling, zero tillage, bed planting, lining of water courses to optimize use of the water available. — Staff Reporter