‘People in south Punjab facing food scarcity’

MULTAN: Experts and scientists at the second international conference have said that malnutrition is dangerous for the coming generations.

The conference on malnutrition was organised by the Bahauddin Zakariya University’s Institute of Food Science and Nutrition at the Jinnah Auditorium here on Thursday. They said that dependency on balanced nutrition should be encouraged keeping in view the modern researches.

Speaking on the occasion, BZU Vice-Chancellor Dr Tahir Amin said that malnutrition had been destroying the generations and it had also become an alarming threat to the coming generations. He said that the BZU was providing an ideal education environment with focus on three key priorities including strengthening the dignity of university, bringing it to international standard and regularly organising seminars, workshops, conferences and promoting international networking.

Dr Tahir Amin said that the university had resources, good faculty and hardworking students. There was a need to give them direction and vision, he added. The country was facing a key challenge of malnutrition because it was promoting diseases, he added. World Hunger Helping project director Tahira Azam said that the people in south Punjab were facing food scarcity. There was a need to initiate work against the food scarcity on warfooting.