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BEIJING: There is enormous potential for China and Pakistan to cooperate in energy, animal husbandry, cold water fish, agricultural machinery, etc. Comprehensive agricultural projects on a village or region scale will prolong industry chain and bring more benefits to Pakistani people.
This was stated by Long Ruijun, Professor at School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University in recent media interaction, saying, enhanced cooperation between Pakistan and China was important for the development of Agriculture sector ion Pakistan.
Currently, Long Ruijun’s team is cooperating with their Pakistani partners in energy, animal husbandry, cold water fish, agricultural machinery, etc. Training sessions and personnel exchanges have also been made possible.
Specially, Long Ruijun highlighted that the similarity of geography and weather between Pakistan’s northern mountain areas and China’s Gansu Province creates more possibilities of technology transfer and cooperation.
“Based on the similarity, many developed Chinese agricultural technologies can be applied to Pakistan straightway,” Long Ruijun talked about the advantage.
It’s learned that Lanzhou University has established China-Pakistan Biomass Energy Center jointly with Pakistan Agricultural Research Council to help Pakistanis solve energy shortage via using methane gas, etc.
Moreover, as animal husbandry is a pillar industry in Pakistan, competitive genetic resources of forage grass and yak and small and medium sized machinery for producing silage are being introduced to Pakistan.
Having made a series cooperation with Pakistan, Long Ruijun acknowledged that China-Pakistan friendship is the anchor of stability for bilateral collaboration in multiple areas, which meanwhile helps more agricultural cooperation emerge between the two countries. “When Chinese experts ask me if they want to extend international cooperation, which country should they go to cooperate with first, I always tell them that would be Pakistan.
With the 70-year strong diplomatic ties and unbreakable traditional friendship, various forms of cooperation will be started more smoothly,” Long Ruijun said.
* China-Pakistan can be a role model of successful agricultural cooperation for the cooperation with other countries in South Asia and Central Asia in the future,” he added.
