Nigerian Nassarrawa State Executive Governor Umaru Tanko Al-makura on Friday said bilateral ties between Nigeria and Pakistan would be further strengthened especially in the field of agriculture to get benefit from the each other potential.
He was talking to the University of Agriculture Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan at the Syndicate Room. All deans directors, Registrar Muhammad Hussain, Treasurer Umer Qadir, Controller Abdul Wahid, Principal Officer Public Relations and Publications Dr Jalal Arif and other officials also attended the meeting. He said Pakistan and Nigeria were enjoying good relations. He said that his country is a natural oil producing county. He said that now, his government had put agriculture in the one of main manifesto. He said that collaboration especially in rice, sugarcane and citrus need to be strengthened to get benefit from each other experience. He said that University of Agriculture Faisalabad is very famous university and center of excellence in agriculture. He said that the Memorandum of Understanding would be inked between the UAF and his institutions so that they could get benefitted from UAF in curriculum development, research and other areas. He invited the UAF experts to visit his state and work together with their agricultural institutions to collaborated work to support agricultural sector. He said that the collaboration could be worked out to produce the Basmati rice in his state. UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan said that the UAF and Nigerian institutions work in the field of the agriculture would result in bringing the tangible results. He said that agriculture was the backbone of the our economy, contributing 21 percent to the Gross Doemstic Product of the country. He said that UAF was enjoying good relations with the educational and agricultural institutions worldwide. He said that the county was producing the surplus production in the all major crops. He said that we have to work on the nutrition security also. He said that collaborative work would bring the tangible result to increase the production and get benefit from each other experiences. He also visited teh different labs.