03/09/2026
Pakistan's agriculture sector contributes nearly a quarter of national GDP and employs 37% of the labour force, yet wheat productivity sits at just 32 per acre against China's 90. Structural gaps span the value chain; weak modernization, poor post-harvest infrastructure, water mismanagement and a farmer base disconnected from formal markets and price hedging power.
In Episode 4 of Round the Table At KRN, Sanee Zahra sits down with industry experts; Faisal Bilal(Founder & CEO, ), Babar Malik (Agriculture Systems Advisor), Yasir Maqbool (Chief Commercial Officer, ), and Fouad Bajwa (CEO and Co-founder, Digital Dera CRSVN Climate Resilient Smart Villages Network) to unpack the systemic barriers, the investability gap, and the financing models needed to build a resilient agricultural economy.
🎙️ Watch the full episode, "*Rethinking Pakistan's Agricultural Future"*, to understand what it will take to turn Pakistan's agricultural potential into productivity: https://youtu.be/_-SJgr9TFIs
Pakistan's agriculture sector contributes nearly a quarter of natio...
