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University of Agriculture Faisalabad old campus will be converted into state-of-the-art museum meant to depict the historical achievements of this century-old institution and different phases of agriculture and university, said University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan.

He was talking to renowned writer Mustansar Hussain Tarrar and renowned artist Usman Peerzada at a meeting held at Syndicate Room. He added that the UAF had started work on museum a couple of years ago but the work was stalled due to managerial issues. He said that now, the UAF had taken up issue and work has been started for setting up museum. He added that agriculture is the backbone of our economy. Keeping increasing population, and lack of implementation of modern trend in view, there was a need to revamp the agriculture sector. He said that in 60s and 70s, the radio was popular tool to disseminate the agricultural issues. He said that now, modern tools like social media etc had taken root that must be used for creating awareness.