ISLAMABAD, Dec 19 (APP): Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has established its 5th Adaptive Research cum Demonstrative Research Institute at Kam Sarobi, Miranshah, North Waziristan.
Chairman PARC Dr Muhammad Azeem Khan on Saturday inaugurated this newly established research station. Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Dr Azeem said the research station would help cater needs of a rapidly increasing population, raising human living standards, providing employment to local people, and becoming self-sufficient in food production.
Besides, it would also help acquire low-cost technology for agriculture to promote and develop agriculture and related business in these areas, he added.
Chairman PARC said major objectives for the establishment of a new institute at Kam Sarobi, Miranshah, District North Waziristan included healthy and high yielding crop varieties, modern methods of producing more milk and meat, disease-free animals breeding, introducing modern farming methods to the younger generation and local landlords and to bring modern methods of cultivation of low yielding crops and orchards.
This step would ensure food security for the residents of the area. Moreover, this move also aimed to highlight the importance of agricultural research in the.
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