UAF to set up agronomy college in Layyah

The University of Agriculture Faisalabad will equip the proposed Agricultural College at Layyah with state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities and quality manpower, the university's Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan (SI) said on Thursday.
He addressing the concluding ceremony of a 10-day hands-on workshop for farmers of Layyah district. The workshop was held in collaboration with Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund and Awami Development Organisation. Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan said that the university used to set up new colleges and universities, adding that the UVAS, Lahore and the Arid Agricultural University, Rawalpindi, had remained the university's sub-campuses.
The university's Agriculture College in Dera Ghazi Khan had recently been given the charter of an independent university, he said. Dr Khan said that he was closely working with the provincial agricultural minister, Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, to make tangible interventions in the agriculture sector, benefiting small farmers. Dispelling the impression that Layyah was a backward area, he said that most student intake in the UAF was from that Layyah, Muzaffargarh and Bahawalpur.