Turkish International Co-operation and
Development Agency (Tika) and University of Agriculture Faisalabad on Sunday
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for boosting the livestock sector in
Faisalabad district to alleviate poverty and help spur rural development.
They memorandum was signed by Tika's Acting Programme Co-ordinator at Turkish Embassy in Islamabad Kenan Uysal and UAF's Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan.
The Turkish delegation is on a 10-day visit to the university. On Sunday, the delegation called on UAF's vice-chancellor followed by a meeting with the university's deans and its directors.
The Turkish delegation chief was accompanied by senior Tika officials Aziz Ozturk and Halil Erol and The agency's programme officer in Islamabad Mahmood Saeed. Stressing the need for modernising goat breeding system, Kenan Uysal said that his agency was providing five beetal goats each to 48 selected families in the district. Highlighting the good relations between Pakistan and Turkey, he said the ties should be strengthened in the form of academic exchange programmes, capacity-building and research co-ordination to cope with common challenges.
Appreciating UAF's winning the Islamic Development Bank's Science and Technology Award, Kenan Uysal said it was an achievement that should be written in gold. Turks, Uysal said, considered the UAF's win among 56 countries as their own victory.
Assuring full co-operation to the university, Kenan Uysal said that efforts would be made to strengthen the educational and agricultural sectors in Pakistan. UAF's Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan briefed the delegation about the university and said that being the oldest agricultural educational institute, the UAF was the mother of all agricultural universities in the sub-continent.
He said that according to the Higher Education Commission, UAF was the best university across the country in the category of Q&S with a score of 75. He also said that the campus community was running 214 research projects.
They memorandum was signed by Tika's Acting Programme Co-ordinator at Turkish Embassy in Islamabad Kenan Uysal and UAF's Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan.
The Turkish delegation is on a 10-day visit to the university. On Sunday, the delegation called on UAF's vice-chancellor followed by a meeting with the university's deans and its directors.
The Turkish delegation chief was accompanied by senior Tika officials Aziz Ozturk and Halil Erol and The agency's programme officer in Islamabad Mahmood Saeed. Stressing the need for modernising goat breeding system, Kenan Uysal said that his agency was providing five beetal goats each to 48 selected families in the district. Highlighting the good relations between Pakistan and Turkey, he said the ties should be strengthened in the form of academic exchange programmes, capacity-building and research co-ordination to cope with common challenges.
Appreciating UAF's winning the Islamic Development Bank's Science and Technology Award, Kenan Uysal said it was an achievement that should be written in gold. Turks, Uysal said, considered the UAF's win among 56 countries as their own victory.
Assuring full co-operation to the university, Kenan Uysal said that efforts would be made to strengthen the educational and agricultural sectors in Pakistan. UAF's Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan briefed the delegation about the university and said that being the oldest agricultural educational institute, the UAF was the mother of all agricultural universities in the sub-continent.
He said that according to the Higher Education Commission, UAF was the best university across the country in the category of Q&S with a score of 75. He also said that the campus community was running 214 research projects.
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