UAF, CATAS ink MoU

Guodao says that CATAS is a national institution engaged in tropical agricultural research

The Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) and the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) inked a MoU to collaborate in the area of academia and research especially in the agriculture on Sunday.

The MoU was signed by Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences Vice President Dr Liu Guodao and UAF Vice Chancellor Dr Muhamad Ashraf.

Guodao said that CATAS is a national institution engaged in tropical agricultural research and development as well as graduate student education. He maintained that the varsity is researching tropical fruits, tropical bio-fuel crops, tropical vegetables, tropical textile fibre crops, tropical oil crops, and crops, tropical medicinal crops, agricultural machinery, environment and plant protection, biotechnology, genetic resource conservation and development for tropical agriculture, as well as agro-product quality and safety standards formulation.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 3^rd, 2019.