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Ne cannot solve the food crisis with its bare hands. Nevertheless, many of us expect from the farmers of Pakistan.
Although the rest of the world talks about food safety in terms of climate support, artificial intelligence and sustainable innovation, most of our country’s wheat is still harvested manually. This means sketches, scalles, donkey carts and long, sunny hours under the sun. No machinery, no precision. Back -breaking labor, delicate output and hope. Many of us talk about food protection as it is a policy issue. Look closely, and you will see the real obstacle: we have not done mechanized. Not on the scale we need, not at the speed we need, nor with the urgent need for this demand.
According to the Asian Development Bank, Pakistan has lost between 20 and 40 percent of its agricultural production after crops due to outdated manual methods, defective handling and poor storage infrastructure. A study about the loss of wheat crop is specifically estimated that manual harvesting has lost up to 16 % loss during crop harvesting and itching process, which can be dramatically reduced with proper mechanism.
According to research published in the Journal of Agricultural Engineering, Pakistan’s available farm is estimated at 1.6 kW per hectare, which is far below the level of 1.82 kW/hectares internationally for efficient production of crops, which has been published in the Journal of Agricultural Engineering. We ask farmers to feed more than 240 million populations in the last century, using more appropriate techniques.
According to the recent results in Frontiers in the sustainable food system, complete mechanism has been shown to increase the performance of the farm by 55 % and increase the availability of food by 125 %. It’s not just about the matrix. It’s also about time. Each hour, a farmer does manually operate or harvest, not only in productive capacity, but also in dignity. The mechanization gives farmers their times, their performance and their agency back. It provides them with a breathing room to think, plan, build. Imagine that a university graduate is asked to do his work without a laptop. How do we ask farmers to do every day: run Pakistan’s most important industry without modern tools.
Every percentage of the loss of harvest, every kilowatt every kilowatt is missing the missing form power and manual wages every hour: a country that is trying to feed the future with broken tools.
Rural infrastructure is easy to accuse credit, lack of access to policies or gaps. These are all real problems. But there is also a deep problem: mind -making. We still see tractors and harvesting as optional, not necessarily. Macangeon is treated well as a privilege rather than a baseline infrastructure. Like roads, electricity and the Internet, machines also unlock productive capacity in the 21st century. The time has come for our national dialogue to be caught.
Pakistan does not need sympathy with its farmers. It needs a system. It needs financial support that understands small holders. It needs local manufacturing that is competitive and flexible, and do not ignore the policy framework that awarded mechanisms. We also need to stop making the “hard working farmer with hard -handled hands” as our hero. This story does not serve anyone. Let’s celebrate the farmer with access to appropriate tools, time and training. This is the future.
Every percentage of the loss of loss, every kilowatt missing form power, loses manual labor every hour: a country that is trying to feed the future with broken tools.
Pakistan’s Food Security Challenge is not a long time, global crisis. They look for a better answer here, in our fields. The answer is not the second debt, it is a machine.
Finally, this is not just about agriculture. This is about priorities. If we cannot invest in people who grow our food, we will continue to pay the price in a much more expensive ways we can afford.
Author, a communications professional and published author, is a senior communication manager at Al -Ghazi Tractors Limited.
