Prime Minister Imran Khan has termed National Food Security as a real threat and said that we have to start preparations to deal with it from now on.

Addressing the Farmers Convention in Islamabad, the Prime Minister said that 40 per cent children of the country are suffering from malnutrition. The biggest challenge for us is food security, he added.

The premier said a nation which under malnutrition cannot progress adding that we have to take steps to counter the issue and to meet the challenges ahead.

To explain the precise nature of the problem, he explained to the audience that Pakistan had to import 4 million tonnes of wheat last year alone to meet a shortfall.

He said that the purpose of this conference is to give the right direction to the farmers.

Imran Khan said that the state of Madinah was the first to help the lower class while China was the first to lift 700 million people out of poverty in 35 years. He said China helped small farmers to develop the country, we should have helped our small farmers first.

He said that everywhere in Pakistan weak people were being suppressed, the system ignored the poor class.

"There is also a problem of pure milk in the country, it is terrible that children do not get enough food," he said.