ISLAMABAD: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), in collaboration with the International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (Icarda) has started a programme to train growers with banana farming in Pakistan.
Sindh Agricultural Extension Department’s Dr Shoukat Abro said that the farmers in Sindh produce 90% of Pakistan’s banana crop and have traditionally burnt the waste produced by the crop, which is actually a valuable resource.
The USDA began the three-year programme titled “Improving soil fertility and soil health” through an agriculture extension project in an effort to get farmers to use waste material for the benefit of land and increasing crop production.
