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New Zealand can help in developing DAIRY sector

ISLAMABAD (March 02 2010): Federal Minister for Food & Agriculture, Nazar Muhammad Gondal has said that there is a great potential for New Zealand and Pakistan to work together and benefit from each other's talents. The minister stressed that New Zealand can help Pakistan in developing the DAIRY sector and value addition to milk and all other milk related products.

He said this during his meeting with New Zealand ambassador, Brain Sanders, who called on him at his office here on Monday. The minister asked for the investment of the private sector of New Zealand that is specialised in milk processing and value addition. He urged that the New Zealand government should facilitate the interaction of the private sectors of both the countries so that Pakistan can enhance its farming machinery on the modern lines. The minister added that Balochistan produces a lot of sheep wool, which needs New Zealand's technology to be processed and refined.

Gondal said that New Zealand should offer scholarships to Pakistani students in specialising in agriculture so that the country can put agriculture on the modern lines. While assuring of his country's help in all the possible ways, Brain said, "We would like the agriculture research centers and universities of both the countries to jointly work for the modernisation and mechanisation of the farming sector in Pakistan. The minister said that a MoU is already drafted that identifies the areas where both the countries can co-operate.-PR

Copyright Business Recorder, 2010

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