| Agriculture Department | |
| Native Name: | محکمہ زراعت |
| Type: | Department |
| Seal: | Coat of arms of Punjab.svg |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Punjab, Pakistan |
| Headquarters: | Lahore |
| Minister Type: | Minister |
| Budget: | Rs.15674.9 m (Development) Rs.10199.88 m (Non-Development) (2023-24)[1] |
| Minister1 Name: | Syed Ashiq Husain Kirmani |
| Minister1 Pfo: | Minister of Agriculture, Punjab |
| Chief1 Name: | Nadir Chattha |
| Chief1 Position: | Agriculture Secretary |
| Website: | https://www.agripunjab.gov.pk/ |
The Agriculture Department is a department of the Government of Punjab, Pakistan. It is responsible for legislation, policy formulation, and development of agriculture sector in Punjab.
Regional Agricultural Economic Development Centre (RAEDC) Vehari was established in 1991. The purpose of this Center is to upgrade the technical skills of farmers as well as employees of Agriculture Department through imparting training in the related disciplines.[2]
Planning and Evaluation Cell was established in 1981-82 to deal with all technical matters regarding foreign funded projects. The organization makes liaison with Donors, Provincial & Federal Governments for seeking technical and financial assistance.[3]
Main aim is transfer of technology, monitoring of Agriculture inputs, implementation of Agricultural Laws and execution of Development Projects. Field Extension services, District Demonstration, Seed and Adaptive Research farms, and Agriculture Training Institutes in Punjab are being run by this Directorate General
Directorate General of Pest Warning & Quality Control of Pesticides Punjab responsible for monitoring of pest development and executing all the plant protection activities throughout the Punjab province.[4]
The objective of OFWM is to maximize crop and water productivity by ensuring efficient conveyance, application and use of irrigation water viz-a-viz promoting improved water management interventions through user participation.[5]
Directorate General Agriculture Field provides engineering services to the farmers and other stakeholders in the areas including land leveling/development, well drilling, soil & water conservation, research & development related to agriculture machinery with highly skilled labour. The department is also maintaining agricultural engineering workshops throughout the Punjab for repair & maintenance of bulldozers, well drilling machinery and transport vehicles.[6]
The objective of the department is to increase the producers share in consumers rupee. The department conducts, publishes and disseminates commodity survey and marketing research reports.[7] Directorate of Agriculture (E&M) has establish Agriculture Marketing Information Service (AMIS).[8] The AMIS is aimed at enhancement of efficiency in marketing system through provision of timely, reliable and usable market information to the growers and other marketing stakeholders i.e. traders, processors, exporters, importers, consumers and policy makers. Moreover, AMIS provides efficient flow of market information which enabling the producer to optimize their resource allocation to more profitable enterprises. Further, real-time information on prices and marketing flows assisting in efficient flow of commodities between surplus and deficit areas resulting in better incomes for the producers and stable prices for the consumers. Similarly matching production with demand by making the farmer aware about seasonal price and demand pattern. Agriculture Marketing Information System (Punjab) is a big help for the traders and producers to decide where, when and at what rate to sell their produce, resulting in optimization of profits and additional means to invest in further enhancement of production. To achieve the said objective a website www.amis.pk has been developed which is connected with 135 Market Committees of the province. On the website, the daily wholesale prices of 122 agricultural commodities are available in English as well as in Urdu to facilitate the visitors. It is a robust website with different important information like daily wholesale prices of agricultural commodities, daily arrival, agriculture statistics of the country, support prices of agriculture commodities, district wise crop data, international commodity prices, world crop data, import and export data of agricultural commodities, quality standards, pre-feasibility standards and lot of other information related to agriculture marketing. Moreover, Monthly Agriculture Marketing Roundup is being published on regular basis in which complete price and supply analysis is given for the information of growers, traders, exporters, importers and policy makers. For easy access through mobile phone, an Android-based application named AMIS PUNJAB has been published on Google Play to help user fetch daily wholesale prices as per choice.
Prepares production estimation of the cultivated crops.[9]
Responsible to disseminate information through effective use of print and electronic media for transfer of technology to enhance agricultural productivity.[10]
Directorate of floriculture is working for the improvement of floriculture in Punjab by conducting research on different aspects of commercial Floriculture crops and imparting training to Public in the field of floriculture and landscaping.[11]
Punjab Seed Corporation (PSC) is a semi autonomous body of the Department, for systematic production, procurement, processing and marketing of crops seed on scientific lines.[12]
Punjab Agricultural Research Board (PARB) is an autonomous body of department for research planning and efficient allocation of research resource so that the agriculture innovation system of the province can generate appropriate solutions.[13]
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