KUNMING:
China’s Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS) and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote agricultural cooperation between China and Pakistan at an online signing ceremony held in Kunming and Beijing on Friday.
Addressing the ceremony, Dr Wang Jihua, President of YAAS, noted that years of collaboration between YAAS and PARC have yielded fruitful results in the areas of wheat, potato, sugarcane, banana and plant protection.
Wang emphasised “the effective information sharing in desert locust early warning and prevention and the collaborative research on wheat disease and breeding have become good examples of China-Pakistan sci-tech cooperation.”
Highlighting the outcome of cooperation between the two sides, Pakistan’s Ambassador to China Moinul Haque said that he was more than happy to see Chinese experience and expertise contributed to the increased crop yield, plant protection and pest control in Pakistan.
“We are very grateful to China for helping us last year with the prevention of locusts and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas of China has also given us special drones to help us in plant protection and pest control,” said Haque.
The ambassador envisioned that future cooperation between the two institutions will further enhance the capacities of Pakistani scientists, researchers and institutions, and help in boosting crop yields by promoting plant protection and pest control.
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