A spokesman of Sindh Agriculture Department said here on Sunday that the information was given by the Director General, Agriculture Extension, Sindh, Naeem Ahmed Korejo, to a three-member team of the Standing Committee of Sindh Assembly on Food and Agriculture at Sakrand on the third day of its visit of the province.

The three MPAs comprising the committee included Haji Anwar Ahmed Mahar, Haji Munawwar Ali Abbasi and Talib Imam. The main objective of the scheme, to be started in 2007-2008, is to empower both field staff and farming community with agricultural skill and knowledge.

The spokesman said during their three-day visit, the Provincial Assembly Members' team went round demonstration plots, field offices of agriculture extension, pesticides quality testing laboratory, food grain godowns and held meetings with officials of Agriculture Department Extension and Food Departments at Larkana, Sukkur, Rohri and Sakrand.

In a meeting with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Larkana, the team underlined the need for establishment of guava development and processing centre and rice by-products industries in the area to exploit full potential of the crops grown there.

The team also laid emphasis on setting up of modern rice processing plants to produce exportable quality rice, which can fetch higher returns to paddy farmers.