FAISALABAD City News

UAF, Korean company to collaborate in agri sector
From Our Correspondent
FAISALABAD: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad and a Korean company will collaborate in soybean, dairy value chain, value addition and other areas of agriculture to get benefit from each other experiences and to flourish the sector in Pakistan.
This was decided in a meeting of a Korean team led by Mrs Seo with UAF agri scientists here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, Seo said that the collaboration would open up new horizon to get benefit from each other experiences. She said that Pakistan was enriched in its culture and blessed with good cropping system.
UAF Office of Research Innovation and Commercialisation Director Dr Asif Ali Asif Ali said that the joint venture would help the country promote the value addition, dairy value chain and other areas of agriculture. He said that the UAF was making all-out efforts to enhance the agricultural productivity in the form of trained manpower, research and commercialisation of innovative products and ideas.
Faculty of Food Science Dean Dr Masood Sadiq Butt said that promotion of value addition in the food sector would fetch huge foreign exchange. He said that the country was blessed with tremendous resources that needed to be explored.
Faculty of Veterinary Sciences Dean Dr Zafar Iqbal said that artificial insemination (AI) of animals played a vital role in the improvement of livestock breeding. He said that the country was one of the top producers of milk but due to low per animal production and traditional way, it was lagging behind from rest of the world. Dr Khurram Zia and others also spoke on the occasion.
The other members of the Korean delegation include Lee ManJae from the Institute of Dairy Technology, Korea, and Shin SangChul.