By NNN-KUNA,
Islamabad : The European Union will continue its support for combating rising food prices and ensuring food security in Pakistan, said the Europe-Aid Director for Asia and Central Asia, Dirk Meganck, here on Friday.
“Pakistan is a great country, a great nation with a great potential and a large population but it is also a country affected by big problems, big calamities while the greatest calamity has been the recent floods,” said Dirk Meganck while addressing a gathering of small-scale farmers.
He said, the ones who have suffered the highest in this country, are those living in the rural areas amounting 60 to 70 percent of the population and the people living in these rural areas contribute greatly to the economy.
“Our purpose is to support and help build your communities especially when they are affected by such calamities (recent floods),” he added.
Later, he distributed large quantities of wheat seed, fertilizers and winter vegetable seeds among the farmers in an attempt to ensure the timely Rabi planting in the flood hit areas of the country where the standing crops over 2.4 million hectares got washed away by the recent disastrous floods.
The Rabi package distribution is a part of the 40 Million Euros Food Facility Project which aims at combating the rising food prices in the country.
After the unprecedented devastation, wreck by recent floods across the country, there has been shortage of food that has led to double-digit increase in food prices.