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The Pakistan Times    30/11/2004 14:17:40

The Fisheries department was working over a task of introducing the concept of integrated farming with the objective of promotion and development of fish farming in NWFP.

In this regard a project was under review for experimental integration of agriculture, poultry and fish farms at government owned Sher Abad fish farm on the outskirts of Peshawar, informed Director Fisheries, Omer Hayat.

"We are studying feasibility study of integrated farming and contemplating over to undertake an experiment on this concept at Sher Abad fish farm," he added.

"If the result was encouraging, further efforts would be made to find out suitable localities for establishment of integrated farms in the Province with involvement of communities," said Director Fisheries.

"We should become cognizant to new developments and ideas taking place in the world and take initiative for getting advantage of these," he said.

The integrated farming, he continued, was not a new concept in western countries where a number of such farms have been established and showed good results.

He was also of the view that success of integrated farming would play a significant role in development and boost of farming.

To a question about increased investment in integrated farming, Omer Hayat observed that groups can be formed for investing in such farming.

Furthermore, government can also be approached for extending easy loan facility for promotion of integrated farming.

He said the Bank of Khyber had already started loaning on easy terms for fisheries. Similarly, the BoK can also extend the same facility for integrated farming, he remarked.