Author: Dr. Rana Muhammad Amir

Pakistan’s water problem is less about how much rain falls than about how little of it the country stores, protects and uses wisely. Water is not one resource among many; it is the condition on which every other resource depends. Yet the planet’s supply of usable water is surprisingly small. Only about 3 percent of the earth’s water is fresh, and most of that is locked in glaciers and ice caps, leaving well under 1 percent in rivers, lakes and accessible aquifers for drinking, farming and industry. Growing populations, expanding cities, soaring industries and the rising demand for food all…

Wheat is considered as backbone of food security especially in developing countries like Pakistan because most of its population consumes wheat in daily meals directly or indirectly. A positive side of the picture is that the country has so far been majorly fulfilling the population demand by itself, mostly attributed to the wheat support price. However, in the recent years the withdrawal of wheat support price, the farmers in general and in particular the large wheat growers are vulnerable to discontinue growing wheat. Besides, above mentioned preference and importance, the cultivation and production of wheat is no more sustainable and…