Pakistan is basically an agricultural country. Its rural areas and the population continue to be the mainstay of economy. Agriculture is the largest sector in the economy contributing 25 percent of the GDP and providing 70% of the total value of exports.

Objectives

 

Promote new crop-technology and crop varieties/ fertilizers/ pesticides/ weedicide, farm machinery & tools and collection of statistics.

Provide information to growers on urgent issues like insect pest outbreak, climatic changes, weather forecast.

Evolution of new high yielding and insect, pest, disease resistant varieties of major and minor crops.

Develop package of appropriate improved production technologies for crops / plants to get higher yields.