Punjab Economic Research Institute (PERI) organised a seminar on "Agriculture Price Policy: Equity, Efficiency and Food Security" held at Planning and Development Complex, Lahore on Monday.The seminar was chaired by Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan, Chairman, Planning and Development Punjab and the chief guest was Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Vice Chancellor ofUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad.The spokesperson for the seminar was Dr Asif Saeed Khan from National Tertiary Education Consortium (NTEC) Auckland, New Zealand and his topic of policy talk was "Agriculture Price Policy: Equity, Efficiency and Food Security".Chairman P&D Jahanzeb Khan while addressing the seminar said that agriculture policies not only transformed lives of the farmers but also improved the nutrition of the women."Today we are facing problems of food insecurity, lack of efficiency and inequity in the market for agricultural products which can be solved only by sustainable agriculture policies," he added.He lauded the efforts of Dr Mumtaz Anwar, Director PERI, Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, and Dr Asif Saeed Khan to hold this seminar.During the seminar, Dr Asif Saeed Khan highlighted that there is a need for collaboration among all the stakeholders pertaining to agriculture sector so that the input-output gap could be removed and better agriculture policies could also be formulated.Moreover, he said that there is a need for a holistic policy approach and the capacity building was of utmost importance.Dr Iqrar Khan elaborated that over the past sixty years agriculture price policy has remained interventionist; all the stakeholders should strive to come on a same platform to remove market imperfections and to bring the system out of the capacity trap.Dr Mumtaz Anwar, Director PERI mentioned that this seminar was a part of PERI research and training seminar series and he also highlighted that PERI has been crucial in providing a platform to policy makers for policy making and developing policy papers pertaining to agricultureand the overall economy of Punjab.News SourceNews Collated byPAKISSAN.com
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