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The first varieties of zinc-enriched wheat recently became available for farmers to grow in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), where 20 percent of rural children do not have adequate zinc in their diets and rates of stunting are alarming. The two biofortified varieties, Tarnab Rehbar and Tarnab Gandum-1, contain on an average 40 percent more zinc…

The more farmers learn about nutrient-enriched crops, the more they want to grow them. In Pakistan, increased awareness among farmers and value chain actors about biofortification has rocketed the zinc-enriched wheat variety Akbar 2019 into popularity as a “mega variety” in Punjab province. Universities, the government, civil society, and other partners are joining HarvestPlus to speak up…

Authorities in Pakistan anticipate considerable climate-related decline in wheat production for the 2022-2023 season. And yet, food and agriculture experts are hopeful that production of zinc-enriched biofortified wheat will rapidly increase to approximately 5.4 million metric tonnes (MT) in the wheat cropping season of 2023, up from 3.5 MT in 2022. Zinc wheat has the…