Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Pakistan, China needed to collaborate with each other to exchange cotton germplasms, so as to share knowledge and scientific approaches for having quality yield.
This collaboration is imperative as Pakistan doesn’t have cotton that is suitable for machine picking, and China’s cotton is not that resistant to heat and drought,” said Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, a Faculty member of Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), and Lecturer-Chair of Germplasm and Genetic Stocks, ICGI.
The Gwadar Pro quoted him as having said, that lack of technology in Pakistan could be problematic for some time. “Pakistan is still on the list of developing countries, and there’re lots of differences in cotton research between Beijing and Pakistan, like the lack of proper infrastructure in agriculture.” “Farm work is mechanized in most parts of China, you know, from sowing to picking or harvesting, but Pakistan is still in the end of that line,” he further mentioned.
