According to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Chairman Asim Saleem Bajwa, a pilot chilli farm project run by the Pakistan China Condiments Industry Alliance (PCCIA) has successfully finished 100 acres of cultivation.
The China Embassy in Pakistan, the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority, the China-Pakistan Agricultural Cooperation and Exchange Centre, and agriculture-related companies from both countries collaborated to launch the chilli contract farming project.
The CPEC chairman announced on his official Twitter account that the project’s next phase will aim to cultivate a total of 3,000 acres.
The initiative also aims to modernise Pakistan’s agriculture industry, including the creation of new seeds to boost crop yields, as well as farm labour skill development, processing, and export.
Bajwa also posted a video describing the agricultural initiative and the PCCIA’s founding vision.
According to the video, Chinese technicians left Chengdu (the capital of Sichuan province in southern China) for the Indus River Basin on January 26 to provide all-round technical support for the growing of Chinese chilli peppers.
One of the technicians in the movie stated, “Pakistan is an agricultural country with fertile land resources, a good climate, and an amazing demographic dividend.”
