Ministry of National Food Security & Research
The Ministry of National Food Security & Research or Ministry of Agricultulre is a Cabinet-level ministerial department of Government of Pakistan. It is responsible for implementing, enforcing, developing, and executing policies on agriculture, rice, livestock, fishing, and farming. The ministry is governed by the Minister of National Food Security and Research, who must be a member of Parliament of Pakistan. According to the World Food Programme, "36.9% of population faces food security. This is due to limited economic access by the poorest and most vulnerable group of the population – particularly women – to an adequate and diverse diet."
Attached departments
Agricultural Policy Institute
Agriculture Prices Commission was established in 1981 and re-constituted as Agriculture Policy Institute in 2006 as attached department with ministry.Federal Seed Certification & Registration Department
Provide seed certification and quality control cover for various crops and field inspection of the crops of registered varieties and released varieties.Animal Quarantine Department
Regulate the import, export and quarantine of animals and animal products, in order to prevent the introduction or spread of exotic diseases and maintain quarantine services of high standards, to protect the livestock industry of Pakistan and other countries.National Veterinary Laboratory
National Veterinary Laboratory is a national institution for service and regulatory support to national livestock wealth. These laboratories are capable of catering needs in advanced applied biotechnology, bacteriology, virology, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, toxicology, pathology, parasitology and exotic diseases.Department of Plant Protection
The department Quarantines and routinely locust Survey and control.Autonomous bodies
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council is the apex national organization working in close collaboration with other federal provincial institutions in the country to provide science-based solutions to agriculture of Pakistan. The organization promote and coordinate agricultural research, arrange expeditious utilization of research results and establish research establishments to fill in the gaps in existing agricultural research system.Corporations
Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation
PASSCO is a public Limited Company, its functions include maintaining strategic reserves of wheat and other specified commoditiesand procurement of food commodities at Government’s fix price.