PARC believes Thar Foundation’s Bio-Saline Agriculture in Thar is a great success

Pakistan’s top agriculture research body, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has declared Thar Foundation’s Pilot project of Bio-Saline Agriculture in Thar “a great success”.
Thar Foundation and PARC have also decided to scale up the project to more focus on creating livelihood opportunities for local farmers to make sustainable earnings for the poor households of a natural disaster-hit region of Tharparkar.
Thar Foundation in partnership with PARC had joined hands in 2018 for a pilot project and have successfully tested grafted species of Bairi (Jujube), Lemon and Cheeku (Sapota) over an area of 20 acres with drip irrigation as a mode of irrigation through Biosaline Agriculture.
In order to implement the initiative, Thar Foundation and PARC inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to the collaboration which will focus on the trials of salt-resistant fodder and cash crop species, training of local farmers, information exchange, awareness campaigns, and developing an economic value chain