QUETTA: Balochistan go
vernment is making hectic efforts for promotion of agriculture sector to attain food autarky on Saturday.
A senior official of Agriculture Department was q
uoted by state-run radio as saying t
hat Rs eight billion
have been al
located in new fiscal year’s budget for the purpose.
He said that under Kacchi Canal Project fifty seven thousand Acres barren lands would be made cultivable.
Meanwhile, construction work of go
vernment agriculture farms in eighteen district of the province
have begun at a cost of 288 million rupees.