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More than 50 million people in Pakistan are zinc deficient

News & StoriesApril 20, 2023535Views 0Likes 0Comments

Islamabad, Pakistan is facing serious challenges of malnutrition and food insecurity. Climate change and recent flooding have created further threats to deteriorate the situation. Malnutrition cost Pakistan 7.6 billion USD every year due to the lost labor, health care expenses, and lower productivity of human capital. This was said by the experts addressing to the…

Workshop organized by HarvestPlus & AGAHE on “addressing zinc deficiency through biofortification of wheat”

News & StoriesApril 20, 2023484Views 0Likes 0Comments

Islamabad, (Parliament Times) : Pakistan is facing serious challenges of malnutrition and food insecurity. Climate change and recent flooding have created further threats to deteriorate the situation. Malnutrition cost Pakistan 7.6 billion USD every year due to the lost labor, health care expenses, and lower productivity of human capital. This was said by the experts…

Biofortified wheat to help cut zinc deficiency

News & StoriesApril 20, 2023519Views 0Likes 0Comments

LAHORE:More than 3.5 million metric tons of zinc biofortified wheat grain harvested this year. This would help to reduce zinc deficiency in Pakistan where over 50 million people are zinc deficient. Addressing a workshop on zinc deficiency Dr Anjum Ali Butter of Punjab Agriculture Department said scaling up of biofortification of wheat crop is among…

Amid Climate Change

News & StoriesApril 20, 2023382Views 0Likes 0Comments

MUNAWAR HUSAIN 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 biofortifiedwheat will rapidly increase to approximately 5.4 million metric tonnes (MT) in the wheat cropping season of 2023, up from 3.5 MT …

Only fortified crops offer sustainable food security, better nutrition in Pakistan: experts

News & StoriesApril 20, 2023331Views 0Likes 0Comments

Amid fears of considerable decline in the wheat production due to effects of climate change for the 2022-2023 season, biofortified crops, especially Zinc-enriched wheat, has the potential to help bring food security to Pakistan and overcome widespread and preventable zinc deficiency in the larger population, food and agriculture experts said on Saturday. Pakistan faces serious…

Experts say biofortified wheat offers food security solution

News & StoriesApril 20, 2023339Views 0Likes 0Comments

KARACHI: 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…