Islamabad
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Chairman Dr. Yusuf Zafar, T.I. has presided over 36th meeting of Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of Board of Directors of Agricultural Linkages Program (ALP) at here PARC (HQs) on Thursday to technically evaluate the project proposals received under 7th Batch of ALP.
While presiding over the meeting Chairman PARC welcomed the committee members and said that the ALP is an endowment fund established at PARC with the support of Government of USA to use for activities / projects in line with the Pakistan’s long-term research / development goals for the agriculture sector. He said this fund was not restricted to PARC and it was extended across the country. He said that PARC running this program very efficiently since its inception. He urged the TAC members to focus on good quality of research.
DG P&DD and Executive Director of ALP Dr. Ahmad Bakhsh Maher briefed about the agenda of the meeting. He said that there are in total nineteen (19) projects that are to be presented to the TAC out of which 16 have been cleared by the referees and relevant technical divisions of PARC. The discipline wise projects to be considered in the TAC meeting include 11 from plant sciences, 03 natural resources, 04 animal sciences and one from agricultural engineering.
The technical members of PARC Dr. Nadeem Amjad, Member NRD, Dr. Munir Ahmad, DG AED, Dr. Ghulam Ali, Member PSD and Dr. Shahid Rafique, Member ASD have presented projects before the TAC related to their disciplines for technically evaluation, discussion and recommendations for their approval from BoD of ALP.
