Speakers at a workshop called for adopting precision agriculture to make the sector profitable and to meet the demand of increasing population that will double by 2050.

Speakers at a workshop called for adopting precision agriculture to make the sector profitable and to meet the demand of increasing population that will double by 2050. They addressed the concluding session of workshop titled precision agriculture arranged by US Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. The session was chaired by USPCAS Chief of Party Dr Bahir Ahmad Khan while Dean Faculty of Agricultural Engineering Dr Allah Buksh, USPCAS Precision Agriculture Chair Dr Jahanzeb Masood Cheema and other notables also spoke on the occasion. Addressing on the occasion, Dr Bashir Ahmad said that farming community was suffering due to different challenges facing the sector. He said that it is need of the hour to adopt the modern agriculture practices to make it the profitable. He stressed upon the need to create the awareness among the farming community about increasing the per acre production. He said that the country was having the fertile land, best agro zones and hardworking people. He said that traditional way of the farming is barring the farmers to get the fruits from the potential. Dr Allah Buksh said that precision agriculture had played a important role to make the sector profitable. He said that there was need to apply the modern practices to fight the issue of food insecurity. He said the efficient usage of inputs and rational usage of the water had become imperative to fight the agricultural challenges and to make it cost effective. Dr Jahanzeb Cheema said that the USPCAS-AFS focused on research that directly relates to the ongoing and anticipated challenges of food security under the domain of agriculture. He said that the Precision Agriculture had become iperative to compete with the rest of world and we are taking the steps to promote the technology countrywide.