Sino-Pak Bio health Agriculture Overseas Sci-tech Demonstration Park was inaugurated at the University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last week. The bio health agriculture park is cooperation between the University of Haripur, Pakistan and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University Xianyang, China.
“By sharing new technologies and crop varieties, the project aims to modernize Pakistan’s agriculture, increase productivity, and lift more people out of poverty,” Dr. Abdul Ghaffar, Postdoctoral fellow at North West A & F University told Gwadar Pro. He said that the cultivation of Chinese and local high yielding varieties of different crops and vegetables remained a major area of cooperation.
The park will be constructed in three phases. In the first phase, a demonstration area will be established to plant crops with low input and high value addition. In the second phase, more will be invested in high-tech agricultural products. Joint efforts will also be made on talent training and agricultural laboratory establishment.
The third phase will focus on agricultural macro monitoring, management and big data. During the meeting, both sides agreed to extend cooperation in exchange for vegetables and other agricultural varieties through modern agricultural cooperation. They discussed many important aspects of the development of agriculture, especially how to increase yields, the quality of vegetables, fruit and agricultural crops.
