The University of Agriculture Faisalabad experts team on Wednesday visited the village 230 RB in order to investigate the sudden deaths of buffaloes.

The University of Agriculture Faisalabad experts team on Wednesday visited the village 230 RB in order to investigate the sudden deaths of buffaloes. The team presented the initial report before Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan in a meeting at Syndicate Room. The team found that sudden buffaloes’ deaths were occurred due to eating toxic sorghum. It mostly happens in the dry span when the sorghum doesn’t find the watering or rains that result in production of cyanide. The watering to the plant decreases the HCN (the harmful material for intake). It was not given the water for the last two months. The team members included Dean Veterinary Sciences Dr Zafar Iqbal Randhawa ; Dean Animal Husbandry Dr Sajjad Ahmad; Chairman Plant Breeding and Genetics Dr Hafeez Sadaqat; Chairman Entomology Prof Dr Jalal Arif, Dr Ghulam Muhammad, Dr Muhammad Yasin, Dr Ghulam Murtaza, Dr Muhammad Arshad, Dr Rashid Rasool and others notables. The Vice Chancellor directed the meeting to prepare a comprehensive report that will be presented before the government in order to avoid further livestock loss. He said that farming community must be aware about the usage of sorghum in the drought. He said the University was making all-out efforts to address the problems of farming community. He said that the University had established another veterinary hospital on the outskirts of the City in Dera Saen, Ghulam Muhammad Abad, to provide free veterinary medical treatment for the livestock of the farming community. He added that the University had already established a modern agriculture market near the veterinary hospital where the farmers sale their produces direct to the consumers.