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AgriSurge Innovation Challenge 2020 is a uniquely collaborative competition that pairs innovators with entities who are acting as a catalyst in solving critical issues affecting the farming community locally. Leveraging our partners’ expertise in their relevant domains, the contestants will get key opportunities to avail benefits from their invaluable resources and expertise in shaping their ideas into meaningful solutions.

FAO being the partner; gathers, analyzes and generates agriculture data on its member countries, including Pakistan. Below is a listing of the major FAO databases for your reference. Key data sets and statistics provided by the GOP are also listed below. These data will help you develop your winning AgriSurge Innovation Challenge!

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is the prime official agency of Pakistan, responsible for collection, compilation and dissemination...

Agriculture Census of Pakistan

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

The 1st and 2nd Estimates of area sown under 12 major crops are arrived at through Sample Surveys undertaken by the Directorate...

Agriculture Statistics of Pakistan

Directorate of Agriculture Punjab

Agriculture constitutes the largest sector of our economy. Majority of the population, directly or indirectly, dependent on this sector...

Population Census of Pakistan

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Block Wise Provisional Summary Results of 6th Population & Housing Census-2017
[As on January 03, 2018]

Punjab Agriculture Development Statistics

Government of Pakistan - Data

Sindh Agriculture Development Statistics

Government of Pakistan - Data

Balochistan Agriculture Development Statistics

Government of Pakistan - Data

KPK Agriculture Development Statistics

Government of Pakistan - Data

Pakistan Open Data

Pakistan Open Data

Open Data Pakistan is brought to you by the National Center for Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Higher Education Commission (HEC)...

Ba Khabar Kissan

Ignite & Ba Khabar Kissan

Ba Khabar Kissan is one stop solution service exclusively dedicated to farmers which provides latest market rates, weather forecast, agricultural advisory, best practices tips, animal husbandry, section to buy products...

Agroecological Zones of Punjab

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Agriculture contributes approximately one-quarter of provincial gross domestic product (GDP) in the Punjab Province. The provincial share is two-third of the total national agricultural output, ...

Food and Agriculture Data

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available...

Land & Water Data

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

AQUASTAT is FAO’s global water information system, known to be the most quoted source on global water statistics. It collects, analyses and disseminates data and information by country, by region...

World Food Situation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The FAO Food Price Index is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities.The FAO Food Commodity Price Indices show changes in monthly international prices...

Harmonized World Soil Database

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Harmonized World Soil Database is a 30 arc-second raster database with over 15 000 different soil mapping units that combines existing regional and national updates of soil information worldwide...

Desert Locust situation in Pakistan

Desert Locust situation update
(24 March 2020)

Hopper groups form from Baluchistan breeding and immature adults start to form groups. Group of adults laying in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Hopper groups in Dera Bugti district (north of Sukkur). Control operations underway...

Women in Agriculture in Pakistan

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Pakistan is a country with a great deal of diversity in culture, traditions, habits, attitudes and practices across its various provinces and regions, although there are similarities as well. So when the broad term of “Women in Agriculture”...

Pakistan Dietary Guidelines for Better Nutrition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Pakistan Dietary Guidelines for Better Nutrition (PDGN) are dietary recommendations based on scientific knowledge related to nutritional requirements, food consumption patterns and nutrients intake...

Punjab, Sindh (Pakistan) - Kharif Crop masks

Punjab, Sindh (Pakistan) - Kharif Crop Masks 2014-2015

Information on agricultural land use is one of the most important parameters required for policy and decision support regarding availability of reliable crops statistics, food security management and environmental sustainability...

Remote sensing for mapping of smog in Punjab

Agriculture Delivery Unit, Government of Punjab 2020

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Pakistan initiated the Technical Cooperation Programme on Remote Sensing for Spatio-Temporal mapping of Smog (R-SMOG) upon the request of the Government of Punjab....

Global Information and Early Warning System

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

As a response to the generalized food crisis of the early 1970s, the Committee on World Food Security prompted the creation of the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS)...

Sindh Drought Needs Assessment Report -2019

ACTED, FAO, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Unicef, WFP

The Natural Disasters Consortium (NDC) comprised of IoM, FAO, UNICEF, ACTED and HANDS conducted Sindh Drought Needs Assessment (SDNA) in eight districts of Sindh, namely, Tharparkar, ...

Drought Situation of Pakistan, February 2020

Food Security Cluster/Sector, FAO
Situation Report

The drought has become a frequent phenomenon in Pakistan. The drought in 1998–2002 is considered worst in 50 years. According to the Economic Survey of Pakistan, the drought is one of the factors...

Balochistan Drought Needs Assessment Report -2019

ACTED, FAO, International Organization for Migration (IOM), OCHA, Unicef, WFP

The assessment was conducted with the following specific objectives: • To assess the impact of the drought on agriculture (crop cultivation, production, water availability and livestock), livelihoods and food security...

IPC ACUTE MALNUTRITION ANALYSIS of Sindh August 2019

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Acute malnutrition is a major public health problem in all the 8 drought affected districts in the Sindh province. Two districts in the province have extremely critical levels (IPC AMN Phase 5) of acute malnutrition...

Forestry Sector Review: Pakistan

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is situated between 24^o to 37^o North latitudes and 61^o to 76^o East longitudes, covers an area of 88.430 million hectare and has population of 207 774 million. Pakistan is predominantly a mountainous country...

Livelihood and Food Security Assessment (LFSA) 2017

Food Security Cluster/Sector

The Pakistan Food Security Cluster (FSC), co-led by FAO and WFP, conducted the Livelihood and Food Security Assessment (LFSA) in four districts in Sindh, namely, Jamshoro, Sanghar, Tharparkar and Umerkot in April/May in 2017....

PRE-CRISIS MARKET ANALYSIS-WHEAT FLOUR MARKET SYSTEM

FAO, Food Security Cluster/Sector

The Pre-Crisis Market Analysis (PCMA) was conducted in the Jamshoro, Umerkot, and Tharparkar districts of Sindh, Pakistan from November 30th to December 11, 2016. The detailed assessment was aimed at assessing the situation of food security...

Household Economic Analysis-Sindh after Drought 2015

FAO

Sindh Province is located in south eastern Pakistan. One of the most notable features of the province is the Indus River. The Indus River is primary source of economic potential in the province yet it is also the source of the province’s greatest...

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