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Sindh has Sub-tropical climate, which is extremely
suitable for large number of crops, but the farmers of Sindh are
illiterate and they raise crops just by copying each other and do not
take a risk with their investment. Due to this practice the local
market is full with conventional fruits and vegetable raised here
namely: mangoes, guava, grapefruit, lemon, lime, sapodilla, cherimoya,
dates, lychee, papaya, melons and zizyphus mauritania. The net result
is a few varieties of each fruit growing over short season and a glut
of one or another fruit crops, throughout the year, and consequently
low prices. Due to mono-culture all diseases, infection , and viral
attacks are frequent, due to cover large area under same crop, and its
control become difficult.
The solution lies in diversification of crops, with
extension of harvest season and new cultivars, especially evolved by
breeding, tissue culture , genetic engineering and bio-technology.
These would be extremely beneficial, to bring sustainability locally
and globally.
Agriculture is the backbone of our economy as well
as of our foreign trade. To strengthen the economy of Pakistan, one
should first of all take necessary steps to reform the agricultural
system of the country. This can only be done by educating the farmers
in the latest method of cultivation , new developments in agricultural
inputs and day to day changes in Agricultural Research arena.
If we improve the agricultural sector in Sindh, and
improve its economic growth and conditions, this alone can bring the
sustainability locally and globally. |
