The three-day workshop entitled ‘Agro-pastoralism in the Hindukush belt of Northern Pakistan’ was held in connection with the International Year of the Mountains (IYM), which concluded here at a local hotel.
The event was jointly sponsored by IUCN, Chitral Conservation Strategy (CCS), Mountain Area Conservancy Project (MACP) and Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP).
The speakers highlighted the problems faced by the people of the mountain areas and observed that in order to put a halt to the damaging environment, people would have to revert to their traditional farming that was free of pesticides and other chemicals.
The workshop was inaugurated by Amir Khan Mir, Tehsil Nazim Chitral, while District Coordination Officer Mumtaz Ali Khan presided over the concluding session.