Pakistan and Bangladesh can exchange mutual experiences regarding water use efficiency through their experts as both countries are facing similar challenges. Addressing a meeting with agri scientists, Dr Khundkar Azhar-ul-Haq, Vice President Water Partnership of Bangladesh and Member Regional Council, said both countries witnessed alike problems of water due to illegitimate Indian involvement in the issue.
He said his country was not producing cotton but after China it became second largest cotton exporter of the world. He said Bangladesh scientists had developed a rice variety of having significant intervention of Vitamin-A aiming at keeping the people safe from blindness.
He expressed his willingness to make collaborative research with UAF scientists to jointly work on roses and diseases associated with flowers. Earlier, UAF Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan apprised the visiting scientist that UAF had a unique experience of dong international projects with various scientists and organisations of developing and developed world in which the other institutions were lacking.
The visit of Dr Khundkar Azhar-ul-Haq would certainly pave a way for collaboration and mutual faculty/student visits to share the experiences and steer their respective out of the crises, he added. He emphasised Asian countries in general and of South Asia in particular to work together on climate change as it severely hit the people in the recent years. Professor Dr Allah Bakhsh Chairman, Dept of Irrigation and Drainage, and other were also present in the meeting.