Govt۔ to establish a ‘Potato Development Council’ to boost the potato production

Recently, the Adviser to the Prime Minister for Commerce and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood, took to Twitter to announce:

The Government is considering expediting the establishment of a Potato Development Council under the forthcoming Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF).

In the tweet, Dawood further stated that the council would formulate a long-term vision and policy for the potato sector.

Referring to the potato industry, Dawood said:

I will soon visit all the potato growing areas and will meet the farmers. I will also look into the storage of potatoes and will analyze possible ways to facilitate the farmers and the vegetable growing and storing process.

Here is the original tweet:

Held a fruitful consultative session with the farmers and exporters of potatoes at MOC. We discussed problems facing the exports of potatoes and discussed way forward. We agreed to expedite the establishment of a Potato Development Council, under the forthcoming STPF,…1/2

— Abdul Razak Dawood (@razak_dawood) December 14, 2020

…I would soon visit the potato growing areas to meet the farmers and also see the storage facilities. 2/2@ImranKhanPTI @aliya_hamza @PTVNewsOfficial @RadioPakistan @appcsocialmedia @tdap_official @GovtofPakistan

— Abdul Razak Dawood (@razak_dawood) December 14, 2020

In similar news, the ministry has also agreed to establish a Mango Development Council under the forthcoming STPF.

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