Chairman PARC inaugurates WRIMP

Friday, September 21, 2012 - Islamabad —Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad, Chairman, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) inaugurated an annual review and planning meeting of the Project “Watershed Rehabilitation and Irrigation Improvement” (WRIMP) at NARC here on Thursday.

The Watershed Rehabilitation and Irrigation Improvement Project in Pakistan was sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and ICARDA launched the subject project in Pakistan in collaboration with PARC, BARI-Chakwal, SAWCRI, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad and University of Peshawar and other national and international institutions.

The objectives of this meeting are to review the progress of the project; to suggest any amendment in the approved work plan and to brainstorm how best to disseminate the technologies.

Todd Drennan (USDA), Dr. Otto Gonzalez, Dr. Muhammad Ashraf, Dr. Abdul Majeed (ICADA) and other agri. eminent experts also addressed the participants of the meeting.—Online