Peshawar
UET Peshawar and Pakistan Tobacco Board entered into collaboration where National Center for Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC) UET Peshawar, (NCBC) and Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB), Peshawar PTB will work together on the Detection & Estimation of Tobacco Crop through Geographic Image Analysis for the Period of 2022 to 2023.The documents were endorsed by Dr. Waqas Gilani Chief Statistical Officer PTB and Director ORIC Dr. Nasru Minallah in presence of Vice Chancellor UET Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Hussain.
Secretary PTB Dr. Qaizar Ahmed said, PTB will support the NCBC to identify fields of Tobacco in their respective regions through GPS and assist NCBC in sharing the statistical Tobacco crop and yield related information to enhance the NCBC system for improved Tobacco analysis. NCBC, as per UET consultancy policy will provide services in detection of Tobacco Fields, through advanced geographic image analysis with NCBC’s state of the art Remote Sensing Technologies. Prof. Dr. Iftikhar Hussain, Vice Chancellor UET Peshawar said KPK is the largest tobacco producer as more than 50pc tobacco is produced in KPK as compared to other regions adding, it is important that experts from both institutions gain maximum benefit of this resource for national economy
Prof. Dr. Hamid Ullah Director BOASAR thanked the PTB team. He urged the need to engage postgraduate students in field work and internship opportunities to the undergraduate students. He assure his continuous support on behalf of BAOSAR to enhance research activities through industry academia linkage.
