As many as 20,000 students of the University of Agriculture (UAF) Faisalabad will leave for a nine-day farmers’ fields visit in five divisions of the province from today (Friday), to disseminate new wheat technologies for increasing three maunds per acre production.
The students would move with the Agriculture Extension Department officials and staff during the Punjab government’s wheat campaign.
UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, while presiding over a meeting on the wheat campaign, said that as part of the campaign, the students would go to five divisions, including Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad and Sahiwal, to equip the farming community with the latest agricultural trends, practices and research.
He said that in 2008-2009, Pakistan imported three million tonnes of wheat. After that, the UAF students went from village to village under the wheat campaign and informed the farmers about the latest methods, resulting in wheat production of up to five million metric tonnes in 2010. He said that Pakistan’s average yield per acre was 31 million, while progressive farmers would be getting it up to 60 million.
