The DPRI director, Prof. Dr Ghulam Markhand, said that more than 3,000 tissue cultures had been produced at the labs. PHOTO: FILE
A training and consultation programme on the production of dates and their processing for export purposes was organised by the Date Palm Research Institute (DPRI) at the Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, on Wednesday.
The event was organised by the Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Company (PHDEC), in collaboration with DPRI. SALU Vice-Chancellor Dr Parveen Shah, who was the chief guest at the occasion, said that the DPRI was established in the university in November 2004 and funded by the Higher Education Commission, Islamabad.
The DPRI director, Prof. Dr Ghulam Markhand, said that more than 3,000 tissue cultures had been produced at the labs. These tissue cultures were free of disease, of uniform age and could start bearing fruit within three years, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 20th, 2013.
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