Horticulture: Training to be arranged for schoolchildren

FAISALABAD:

Children from 20 schools in Tandlianwala will be selected for a training session on horticulture techniques arranged jointly by the University of Agriculture Faisalabad and Pak Organisation of National Actuation (POONA).

This was decided at a meeting between POONA Chairperson Surriya Naseem and Institute of Horticultural Sciences Director Prof Muhammad Amjad Aulakh.

The training will include sessions on vegetable gardening. The meeting decided that POONA will come up with more initiatives for promotion of horticultural activities. Naseem said people in rural areas could boost their incomes by horticulture skills. She visited a landscape studio, a citrus nursery, rosa centefolia orchards and an oil extraction project at the university. She also met Water Management Research Centre director Prof Rai Niaz Ahmad and Faculty of Veterinary Science dean Prof Laeeque Akbar Lodhi and discussed water, clinical medicine and surgery, anatomy, and foot and mouth diseases with them.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 7^th, 2012.