: As climate change threatens food security, Pakistan’s crop farmers are switching to trout farming #IndiaNEWS Qasim Shah, a farmer in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, has no

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As climate change threatens food security, Pakistan’s crop farmers are switching to trout farming #IndiaNEWS
Qasim Shah, a farmer in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, has no regrets about giving up crop farming.“Trout farming is more lucrative than traditional crops,� said Shah, who is also the vice president of the Private Fish Farms Association in the Ghizer district. “Crops and fruit have become too climate-sensitive and come with the risk of losing investment.�Trout farms are cropping up in Gilgit-Baltistan, where rapidly warming glaciers form cold-water reservoirs – a key breeding ground for trout. Nearly 200 fish farms have been set up across the province in less than 10 years, with new farms appearing every month. Fish farms are also burgeoning in the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the government hopes to create jobs. At each of these farms, up to 20,000 trout are bred to be sold as food.As climate change threatens food security, traditional crop farmers in Gilgit-Baltistan are opting for trout, which they say is a more sustainable source of income. Across South Asia, farmers are adapting to dwindling outputs and uncertain incomes – with some, like Shah, looking beyond crop cultivation.“I earned 5,00,000 Pakistani rupees [,285] in profit at the end of the last season despite the coronavirus pandemic,� he added. “This season, my target is much higher.� Shah started fish farming in...Read more

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