MAIL Held an Advisory Meeting to enrich National Wheat Policy
Hamal: 11 March 31, 2021
The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) has held a meeting to discuss how to enrich the national wheat policy, with the presence of Dr. Anwarul Haq Ahady , MAIL minister, Shirshah Amiri, deputy MAIL, extension staff and experts in of agricultural sector.
At the beginning of the meeting, Mr. Ahady spoke about researching, increasing production, raising quality, quantity of demand, import and market for buying and selling wheat, saying that the agriculture area is extensive and one of the main areas is production, especially wheat production. Therefore, this meeting was held that all the views are propounded and to develop a comprehensive wheat policy so that we can propose it to the cabinet and approve it.
Pointing that thousands tons of wheat seeds and chemical fertilizers are distributed to farmers annually, adding that more work is still needed to be done this area. He said this meeting was set up to comment on a better and more comprehensive policy, to answer questions about production, needs, prices and more. Also on use of new agricultural implements, experiences and production situation of neighboring countries, your ideas and experiences are all important, express your ideas, production and consumption and other dimensions to be considered until it was drafted, you can say that Our reliance on water, seeds, soil, new agricultural technology or other items; "How products are managed is also important."
Abdul Saboor Rahmani, general director of extension at Ministry of Agriculture at this consultative meeting said, “In this plan, we will focus on a decentralized system so that farmers can get eggs even in the districts at the right time and not wait for the government."
Factors of production, implementation of extension activities, stocks and processing of wheat, challenges of factors of production are among the most important issues that will be discussed in today's and tomorrow's meeting and will be included in this policy.