Pakistan has offered to provide technical assistance to Afghan women to help in re-establishing infrastructure for agriculture sector in the war-torn country. Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) Chairman Dr Badaruddin Soomro conveyed the offer to a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) delegation during a meeting here on Thursday. Pakistan is a partner in US-funded Agriculture Linkage Programme in the region mainly aimed at revitalising institution-based research infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Dr Soomro informed the US delegation that Afghan rural-based women after acquiring training at the National Agriculture Research Centre, a subsidiary of PARC, could impart it further back home.
USDA Deputy Secretary James Moseley, who headed the delegation, expressed the hope that the training to Afghan women in agriculture and livestock sector would help in boosting the sector in Afghanistan.
Moseley also asked the PARC to assist in revitalising agricultural research at Kabul University and other major institutions in Afghanistan, where the infrastructure had been abolished by the decades of foreign invasions and civil wars.
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