Islamabad, June 19, 2023 (PPI-OT): Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal has said that sustainable development goals are not actually an international development agenda, but it is a sustainable agenda for the development of our country or any country through which it’s The people can give minimum facilities and rights to their people for a quality life. He expressed these views on Wednesday while presiding over a meeting regarding sustainable development goals, food security and hunger eradication. He said that the elimination of poverty, hunger and unemployment are the goals that we do not need any international memorandum or any international agreement to achieve, they have to be achieved by ourselves for our development.

Pakistan was the first in the world to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, our National Assembly named them as the National Development Board. He said that after 2018, the former government This goal was not maintained. He said that we have involved the private sector and the civil society and until all these efforts are combined we cannot achieve the sustainable development goals, poverty and hunger are diseases that the society is in. can never develop sustainably, even though we were a food secure country but now our climate change has become a huge threat to security and it is feared that the areas where climate change is more It will have an effect on getting and producing food for these people, it may cause a lot of difficulties, in the worst climatic disaster that happened in Pakistan last year, especially in the most backward areas of Sindh and Balochistan, creating the worst crisis of food and nutrition. gave He said that there was poverty in these areas before but the flood has doubled their problems and the government for these areas.

0 was declared. The federal minister said that Pakistan had overcome food shortage through green revolution, now we need to improve our agriculture sector with the help of new technologies. He said that there are new possibilities in agriculture, let us utilize them and lay the foundation of a new green revolution in which biotechnology, digital technology, drone technology, satellite technology is creating a revolution in agriculture today. In Pakistan, although we are among the top 10 producing countries in the world in most of our commodities, we have to improve our productivity. He said that with the help of these technologies, we will be self-sufficient in food, but at the same time, we can also become a country that exports it. He said that people are suffering from hunger in our country, there is a lot of wastage of food here.

There are signs, but on the other hand, those who seek food from garbage for a single bread, this is a momentary concern. He said that we have to ensure that no one remains hungry in the society, no one is left behind in the field of nutrition. He said that Pakistan and other developing countries are currently going through a crisis in the world. In the international economic crisis, Pakistan is facing the effects of climate change. We have gone backwards in our success of the last 10 years, he said that international organizations should help countries like Pakistan that are facing climate change so that we can provide these basic facilities to our people. In view of this, we have specially targeted agriculture and water resources within the budget so that by securing our water resources, we can increase our production and at the same time improve its distribution system so that every citizen is not deprived of water.

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