KARACHI: The proposed taxes on poultry products will undo all the efforts put in by the industry to reduce and eliminate malnutrition, a statement said on Wednesday. The Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) patron-in-chief Kalil Sattar proposed a comprehensive plan to eliminate malnutrition, under-nourishment, stunting and wasting in children, it added. The World Food Programme estimates … Read more
LAHORE: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Senator Dr Sania Nishtar stressed the need for making more investments in research, modernization of hardware and software in agriculture in order to ensure more sustainability of the agriculture sector. “Being an agrarian economy, we need to invest in research, modernisation of hardware … Read more
LAHORE: Poultry is the most organised agricultural sector, and the industry is currently providing 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the total meat consumed, while, around 1.5 million people are employed in this sector, a statement quoted an official, as saying, on Monday. Raja Attique-ur-Rehman Abbasi, vice-chairman of the Pakistan Poultry Association (North … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The government’s Kamyab Pakistan Programme aims at uplifting the 4.5 million underprivileged households who are registered with the National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) of the Ehsaas programme, a senior government official said. Chairing a meeting of the Steering Committee and the Advisory Board of the Kamyab Pakistan Programme through a video-link, Federal Minister for Finance … Read more
For their suspected involvement in the cartelization and anti-competitive activities in the poultry sector, the Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) has been raided by the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) in Lahore. Pakistan Poultry Association Raided: The CCP carried out a search and inspection raid of the Pakistan Poultry Association for their suspected involvement in the … Read more
