A three-member delegation from British Council visited the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad to discuss the ways of commercialisation of technologies initiated by university faculty through Business Incubation Centre (BIC), UAF. The delegation was headed by Jo Chaffer, Development Trainer Consultant stationed at Kathmandu includes Ben Isaac, Higher Education Project Manager, Central and South Asia (Dhaka), and Sara Pervez, British Council Manager Pakistan.
UAF Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmed Khan briefed the delegation about the performance of the university. He said since the inception of Pakistan, the average agriculture production has increased many folds because of efforts made on the part of agriculture scientists. The wheat production has gone up seven percent, rice 13 percent, sugarcane eight percent and potato 116 percent, he added.
Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmed Khan said in 1947, Pakistan had only nine flourmills, zero rice mill and two sugar mills but now, the country has 915 flourmills, 494 rice mills and 82 sugar mills. He said then the country had 14 ginning factories and now the figure has risen up to 12,000.
The vice chancellor said the university is launching Champions of Tech Transfer and Outreach Programme in a bid to transfer the technology. The university is setting up an energy cell to ensure efficient use of the energy at the campus.
He said to interact with the world, the university is developing groups on internet through social sites as well as web portal where the people will share their ideas and get benefit from each other experiences. Jo Chaffer urged the need for developing a Students Enterprise Club at the campus in order to develop the entrepreneurial skills among the students keeping in view modern global trends on which the VC assured of setting up the club.
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