Farmers are busy harvesting radishes in a field on the outskirts of northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar. Pakistan’s agriculture and economic growth date back more than 50 years to the Indus Basin Project, Faisalabad Agricultural Institute, and support for a variety of vegetable development, which increased Pakistan’s wheat yields by 25 percent in the 1960s.

Today, those investments continue. Pakistan’s agriculture sector employs more than 40 percent of the nation’s workforce and is a key driver of the country’s economic growth.

Pakistan introduced 20 new high-yielding and disease-resistant varieties of wheat and maize. As a result, more than 211,000 individuals have applied improved technologies and farming management practices on nearly 367,000 hectares.