Call for enhancing oil-seeds cultivation area to meet country's food demands.

MULTAN -- Punjab Minister for Agriculture Syed Hussain Jahania Gardezi Thursday said that subsidy on cultivation of Sunflower under the National Oil-seed Enhancement Programme will be a milestone for welfare of the farmers and for meeting edible oil demand of the country.

He stated that the government would exhaust all resources to achieve the target of Sunflower cultivation on over 2 lac acre piece of land this year.

The minister expressed these views while speaking at a seminar on the importance of Sunflowers and its cultivation at Agriculture Training Institute Karor Lal Esan, Layyah.

He informed that the government was trying to reduce production cost on agri-inputs by extending subsidy to growers, adding that it was earmarked Rs over 5 billion for provision of new varieties of seeds and agri machinery to farmers as subsidy on oil-seeds.

Gardezi maintained that...