Plant centric meal competition under Pulses theme held

MULTAN: As many as 50 teams of various educational institutions contested in a plant centric meal competition held under the auspices of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA) here on Wednesday.

The theme of the competition was 'the meals made up of Pulses' and was the part of ongoing international conference week.

Provincial Minister for Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Muhammad Sibtain Khan opened the competition.

Speaking on the occasion, he stated that under the plant for life project, government was planting saplings across the country, adding in the current spring season 1.2 million sapling would be planted.

He disclosed that owners of the new housing colonies would be bound to plant sapling in it to tackle environmental changes.

The provincial minister informed that government was formulating a new law for landlords who own up to 25 acres land, they will have to plant saplings on one acre piece of land.

MNSUA VC, Dr Asif Ali said the competition was aimed at promoting healthy diet and sensitizing students about junk food health hazards.

He advised students to refrain from fast food which affected their health specially kids health.

A total of 90 stalls were erected for the competition. Dr Irfan Baig, Dr Umer Farooq, Mrs Sarwat Zahra, Mehtab Raza and others were present.

First position was shared by BZU and MNSUA students, second position was won by MNSUA and Cothem College while third position was clinched by University of Education and Kisan Group teams.