AJK government public sector stakeholders and AJK University faculty members decided to coordinate with the Department of Sericulture to promote activities through research-oriented programs.
MIRPUR (UrduPoint/Pakistan Point News – June 10, 2022): Public sector stakeholders of AJK government and faculty members of AJK University have decided to coordinate with Department of Sericulture to promote activities through the through research-based programs.
Financial and technical assistance through AKSIC, Agriculture, Social Welfare, AJK TEVTA, PnDD, ESMA, AKHUWAT Foundation, NRSP and other institutes nation-building of the state.
The above institutions unanimously decided to promote the productive activities of the Sericulture Department in the third major event of the series of workshops for building the capacity of silk cocoon production farmers in addition to other matters. related, organized by the department of sericulture in the state metropolis. late Thursday “Bearing in mind the increased importance of the sericulture sector for poverty alleviation, livelihoods, income generation and environmental protection, faculty members of the university AJK also offered sericulture officers to join them for a first awareness workshop on sericulture at the university level for new field procedures,” said the director general of the sericulture department of the AJK later. AJK, Syed Ali Asghar Shah, to APP AJK correspondent Friday evening.g while highlighting the main features of the big event.
He continued that after providing 3-day training to more than 1500 sericulture farmers from various parts of AJK State and distributing mulberry seedlings, urea and breeding kits with imported silk seeds, the 3rd one-day workshop ended at tlJalal Abad garden in the state metropolis. with a series of recommendations to boost the sericulture sector in AJK State where an enabling environment coupled with huge natural potential is already available to promote the cottage industry of sericulture, he added.
The State Department of Sericulture DG pointed out that the workshop brought together the prospective/trained farmers from Neelum district, Muzaffarabad and Leepa n Jhelum valley among others to share their practical experiences and benefits due to silkworm rearing during the last season.
Syed Ali Asghar Shah said senior officers from other departments and institutions were also invited by the sericulture department on this occasion to initiate mutual coordination regarding the promotion of traditional sericulture activities for poverty alleviation, livelihoods, women’s empowerment and environmental protection of this mostly hilly region ~ AJK State scenic terrain, he concluded.
Others attending the ceremony include Muhammad Ahsen, Former Secretary of GoAJK, Raja Azhar Iqbal DG, PID, Information, Qazi Inayat Ali MD AKSIC, Dr Saiqa Andleeb Assistant Professor of Zoology at AJK University, Dr Abdul Raouf Assistant Professor AJKU, Dr Syed Ghulam Haider Kazmi former Chief Economist P&DD, Ahmad Hussain Director ESMA, Ms Amna Rafi DD Agriculture, M Shafeeq University Director TEVTA, Engineer Altaf Hussain Technical Director P&DD, Amir Waheed Assistant Chief P&DD, 12- Rizwan Ullah Khan Entomologist Research Center Sericulture, Tahir Masoud DD Sericulture, Fahad Kyani AD Sericulture Mukhtar Awan Social Welfare Officer, Salaar Mehmood ASDO Sericulture, Sardar Safeer Khan Chinnari Sericulture, Hameed Mughal Sericulture MZD, M Tanveer Sericulture MZD, M Parvez Sericulture MZD, Ghulam Murtaza Sericulture Neelum, Kamran Ali Sericulture Farmer Leepa valley, Ijaz Hussaain Lone Secretary Cache Liberation Cell mire and Sardar Gulzar Hussain CEO ESMA.
