Chairman Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) Engineer Jawed Salim Qureshi, while speaking at the annual convention of Pakistan Society of Agricultural Engineers, announced that PEC is in the process of creating the Engineering Construction Bank to provide interest-free loans to young engineers for setting up start-up companies and to address issues of the modern era. He emphasized the importance of developing entrepreneurial culture among young engineers.
The convention was arranged by the faculty of Agriculture Engineering at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF).
UAF Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Ashraf while addressing the convention said that to ensure long term progress we have to narrow down the gap in industry-academic linkages. Engineers should come up with low-cost agro-technology for small farms so that per-acre production can be increased manifold.
Value addition in the agriculture and food sector is the need of the hour in order to compete with the rest of the world. Citing the example of China he said that there the agriculture department regulates agro-zoning and implementation of agricultural reforms
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