New technology: SALU holds course for sustainable agriculture

SUKKUR: The Centre for Bio-Diversity and Conservation at Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU) Khairpur and ACTED, a French NGO working for flood relief, organised a week-long “Perm Culture Design Course” on campus.

More than 60 farmers from Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot districts will be trained. Perm culture is short for permanent agriculture, a way of working with nature rather than against it.

This course aims to introduce gardening and forestation in communities with little experience of local production.

Prof. Dr Ghulam Raza Bhatti, the pro-vice chancellor of SALU, said that perm culture is a design philosophy from ethics-based principles of working with nature rather than against it.

He added that perm culture means thinking carefully about our environment, community, use of resources and how we fulfil our needs.  ACTED is also constructing 5,000 flood-resistant shelters in the districts affected by the floods.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20^th, 2011.