Agriculture Services Academy, Peshawar

Indeed it is a great honor and privileged for me to share few words. Agriculture employing above 40 percent of the labour force and contributing more than 20 percent to provincial GDP, is one of the key drivers of growth and an excellent opportunity to practice the diversification into areas with comparative advantages of climate.
The role of Agriculture Department is to ensure food security, poverty alleviation and to generate employment opportunities through achieving higher growth rate in this vital sector of the economy. The Department is striving for achieving the future vision i.e. to meet the challenges of 21st century and to develop a vibrant agriculture sector that promotes value addition and helps taps international market for agriculture produce.
The line departments of Agriculture include Agriculture Extension, Agriculture Research System, Livestock and Dairy Development, Livestock Research and Development Department, Veterinary Research Institute, On-Farm Water Management, Soil Conservation, Agricultural Engineering, Cooperatives, Crop Reporting Services and Fisheries Department. The line departments are all mandated for ensuring effective service delivery at the farmers doorsteps and provide all out support for the promotion of agriculture sector in the province.

It is not an exaggeration to say that agriculture is the oldest profession in the world.The human life purely depends on Agriculture. Besides provision of food for human beings, our Agro-based industries also depends on the raw materials of Agriculture sector. Thus, it shows that Agriculture has a unique place among all professions of the world. Pakistan is an agriculture based country and its 70% population depends on farming but neither visible changes are made so far in the villages nor has poverty of the farming communities been elevated.
On the other hand, Agriculture has become a least attractive profession in Pakistan. In the present circumstances, the rural population has not only flow towards the big cities but also makes efforts to migrate abroad/overseas. But those who are attached with the profession of Agriculture are compelled to work. In such a situation, the Agriculture Services Academy Peshawar is a ray of hope for the farmers which disseminate a beam of knowledge related to Agriculture among the farmers community since long. In this academy, Agriculture is taught on such line which attracts farmers toward itself and their coming generation will feel proud to take admission in Agriculture education. The subjects taught here are related to Agriculture including new technologies, invented by Agricultural research and also recommend those to farmers for application on their fields. In this academy, besides increase in Crop Production, the subjects related to Animal Health and their look-after are also taught.
These days, our population is rapidly increasing wherein about 50% of our population is female. Thus it is necessary to include females in this race of development. Therefore , it has been decided by the academy this year that besides males, females either rural or from urban areas areas will be trained in field of Agriculture.
We will try and pray to God to succeed us in our this sacred aim, Ameen