PM Shehbaz Sharif inaugurates LIMS Center of Excellence, COAS attends ceremony

ISLAMABAD (92 News) - Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday inaugurated the Land Information and Management System (LIMS) Center of Excellence with an objective to increase food security and agricultural exports across the country.

Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir also attended the ceremony. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal were also present.

LIMS is the first exceptional initiative aims at enhancing food security and improving agri exports thus reducing import burden on national exchequer by transforming millions of acres of uncultivated/ low yield land within the country.

This state-of-the-art system will help optimize the agricultural production through innovative technologies and sustainable precision agricultural practices based on agro-ecological potential of land, while ensuring well-being of rural communities and preservation of environment.

The GIS-based LIMS will greatly improve the national agri yield by systemizing digitization of agriculture, providing real time information to local farmers about soil, crops, weather, water resource and pest monitoring through remote sensing and geospatial technologies as well as minimizing the role of middlemen through efficient marketing system.

According to the World Food Programme, 36.9 per cent of Pakistanis are food insecure and 18.3 per cent of them are facing severe food crisis.