Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Convener National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Agriculture Transformation Plan visited different institutes of National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad.
Dr. Ghulam Muhammad Ali, Chairman, PARC gave comprehensive briefing about Research finding of PARC and impact on Agriculture Productivity. He also highlighted the technologies developed by PARC. Chairman, PARC briefed about Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) lab in NIGAB.
In the meeting senior management & scientists of PARC participated and responded various queries of Dr. Suleri on Agriculture R&D. Honorable guest took keen interest in recent varieties developed by PARC (Banana & RICE) and how these varieties are rapidly disseminated to the end user/ farmers.
Dr. Abid Qaiyum informed PARC senior management about Government priorities on Agriculture R&D while highlighting various recommendations of Agriculture Transformation Plan. He also stressed PARC to extensively highlight its research finding at National level.
