BAHAWALPUR, Jan. 19 (China Economic Net) – A soybean research and cultivation promotion and planning meeting was held on Jan. 17 in the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB). Strengthening soybean research, promoting soybean cultivation in Pakistan and improving soybean processing and value addition were discussed at the meeting.
Agricultural experts, enterprise CEOs and progressive farmers attend the Consultative Meeting on Strengthening Research and Linkages for Soybean Production is held on Jan. 17 in the University of Bahawalpur. [Photo provided by Muhammad Ali Raza]
“Soybean is considered the essential poultry feed ingredient, next to cereals within the field crop segment. However, local soybean production in Pakistan is much lower than the total national annual consumption. We can get out of this situation by enhancing our local soybean production using strip intercropping technology, which has globally proven to be the technique for enhancing crop production in the face of decreasing cultivation in a sustainable manner,” said Muhammad Ali Raza, post-doc of Sichuan Agricultural University (SAU) and Director of National Research Centre of Intercropping, IUB.
Since 2018, successful maize-soybean strip intercropping technology trials have been continuously conducted in Pakistan’s Sindh and Punjab. At the meeting, Dr. Muhammad Ali Raza, Dr. Zaheer Ahmad In-charge of soybean cell of University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) and Hafiz Saad Bin Mustafa, Research Scientist...
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