From Menahill Rashid
FAISALABAD: The agriculture sector is facing tremendous challenges including low productivity, climate changes, depleting water resources and marketing issue for which solution-based research work is inevitable to cope with the issues, said University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan.,
He chaired the Graduate Studies Research Board (GSRB) meeting.
Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Anas Sarwar Qureshi and all deans and directors attended the meeting while Directorate of Graduates Studies Director Dr Faisal Saeed Awan presented the agenda of the meeting. Registrar Tariq Mahmud Gill, Graduate Studies Assistant Director Dr Khalid Bashir and other notables were also present.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, said that sustainable agriculture would pave the way to address the issues and to alleviate poverty. He said that the training of the staff is being made as permanent features for efficiency.
He directed the faculty members to hunt the projects based upon the solutions to the issues in order to give back to society in term of tangible scientific based work.
He said that the university is strengthening our connections with agriculture experts and scientists across the globe for the betterment in the sector.
He said that the agriculture share to Gross Domestic Product was 19 percent and the majority of people were associated to agriculture sector directly or indirectly.
He said knowledge based economy are prerequisite to alleviate the poverty from the country.
