There is much more potential for application of biotechnology and genetic engineering to raise more crops in a wholesome manner. These should become our focus areas. We should bring appropriate productivity inputs, maybe from Punjab and Andhra Pradesh, to the backward regions of Bihar and Bengal etc. We should, actually, be spending more on R & D than the advanced economies. 15.
Ishrat Husain: Distributing benefits of growth to the majority Presidential address by Mr Ishrat Husain, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, at the pre-budget seminar held by the Pakistan Observer, Islamabad, 28 May 2005. *  *  *  The major recurring themes in the popular discussion on the economy have been shifting over the last six years.