Ambassador of Vietnam H.E Pham Anh Tuan visits UAF

FAISALABAD Feb 25: Ambassador of Vietnam H.E Pham Anh Tuan on Tuesday said Pakistan and Vietnam mutual cooperation in the area of agriculture and trade are being further strengthened to get benefit from each other experience. He was talking to Prof Dr Muhammad Sarwar Khan, the Vice Chancellor of University of Agriculture Faisalabad at the Vice Chancellor Secretariat UAF. Deans and directors also attended the meeting. He said Vietnam imports tobacco, yellow corn and cotton from Pakistan whereas exports include coffee, black pepper and cashew nut . He said the bilateral trade relations between two countries emerge as one of most outstanding fields of the cooperation. He lauded the steps being taken on the part of the UAF for the development of the agricultural sector. The meeting also discussed the exchange and demonstration of agricultural technologies especially for small farmers, and cooperation in the areas of animal vaccines and malnutrition was also discussed. Prof Dr Muhammad Sarwar Khan said that UAF is in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU). We have wheat lines from WSU that are tolerant to climate changes. He said the university has introduced high-yielding Genetically Modified sugarcane for Insect and Herbicide-tolerance. He said commissioned research is being promoted to solve the real problems of agriculture. He said that the university was also working on introducing industrial hemp as cash crop. He said that around 85 percent of the farming community is the small farmers. And we have to induce latest cutting-edge technologies to solve the problems. He further stressed to expand the international corner where more international centers can be built with cooperation of the international community including Vietnam.