MULTAN: With the aim to facilitate growers and to boost production, the Punjab Agriculture Department has announced to send crops-related information along with weather forecast among farmers through SMS.
While talking to the state-owned news agency, Additional Secretary Task Force on Agriculture Ahmed Ali Zafar has said that the department had provided Android phone sets to field assistants for better working in agriculture sector. He said the field assistants were paying farm to farm visits for guidance as well as registration of farmers.
The official said that registration of farmers was meant to impart certain information to them only for the sake of better crops management. He added that 850,000 farmers had been registered and it was ongoing process.
He said for this purpose the department was monitoring performance of field assistants on daily basis by taking the benefit of Geographical Positioning System (GPS) facility provided in their Android phone sets.
“Farmers must contact agriculture department for soil analysis as balanced use of fertilizers would offer them economic benefits not only by reducing use of fertilizers but also enhancing crops”, he concluded.
