Belarus Ambassador to Pakistan Andrei Ermolovich has said that Belarus & Pakistan Agricultural, plus academia ties will be further strengthened to get benefit from each other experiences. He was addressing a meeting of University of Agriculture Faisalabad deans and directors at Syndicate Room that was presided over by UAF Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan. Embassy Counselor Vladimir Papsuev also attended the meeting.
The Ambassador said that Pakistan and Belarus will hold agriculture forum next month in which experts from both countries will participate in Islamabad and will discuss areas of mutual concern. He added that Belarus was producing the advanced agriculture machineries to uplift agriculture production.
He further added that Faisalabad is the hub of agricultural institutions for which they would develop the collaboration to address the issues of agriculture sector. He said that strong academia and research linkages between the both countries are helping further cemented ties. He cited that they have inked 20 memorandum of understanding MoUs between academic institutions of Belarus and Pakistan.
He said that Belarus had about 10 million population as they had developed a strong farm machineries industries, livestock sector and information technology. UAF Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan sought the Belarusian co-operation in strengthening farm machinery sector in Pakistan and strengthening livestock, veterinary and agriculture sector. He further added that Pakistan was receiving modern tractors from Belarus and stressed upon the need to develop linkages in other farm machineries as well.