End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
end hunger, achieve food
security and improved
As pilot projects, the Foundation is currently partnering with some of the best organizations available including Karachi University; Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre (PARC); Xinjiang University in China & Tando Jam University. The Foundation is working in close collaboration with the local farmers to help develop their capacity to farm using saline water.
bio-saline
A revolutionary step using technology transfer has also been launched in Thar to introduce bio-saline agriculture. Thar has traditionally been dependent on rain-fed agriculture – an unreliable form in an area where drought is endemic. Bio-saline agriculture has the potential to revolutionize the socio-economic landscape of Thar, ensure food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Highly saline ground water drawn from the depth of 180 meters as part of mining activity is being used to grow fodder and crops. As pilot projects, the Foundation is currently partnering with some of the best organizations available including Karachi University; Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre (PARC); Xinjiang University in China & Tando Jam University. The Foundation is working in close collaboration with the local farmers to help develop their capacity to farm using saline water.
bio-saline fishfarming –
aqua-culture in the heart of
Followed by the successful Bio-saline agriculture at Thar Block II, the Thar Foundation has initiated breeding fish in the man-made Gorano Reservoir, where brackish and saline ground water is stored.
About 7 species of fish including Morakhi (Mrigal Carp), Rohu (Labea Rohita), Theli, Kuriro, Gulfam, African Catfish, and Dangri (Barramundi) are being raised in the project. Around 100,000 small fishes of these species were released, as seeds, at the outset of the project which have now been grown into fully mature fish. The fish raised at Gorano are purely organic with no artificial chemical used at any point of breeding and has been declared fit for human consumption by medical laboratories. The fish farmed at the reservoir will be used as a source of livelihood as well as nutrition for the local population specially the students of Thar Foundation schools.
