PESHAWAR: The Directorate of Student Counselling, Placement and Human Resource Development of the University of Agriculture Peshawar, with the cooperation of Weather Vale and Informed Farmers Islamabad, organized an awareness program for university students in the University of Agriculture Peshawar on the topic of \u201cSmart Climate Change and Women in Agriculture\u201d. A one-day workshop was held in which Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Jahan Bakht graced the occasion as chief guest. Registrar Dr. Rizwan Ahmed, Director Students Counseling, Placement and Human Resource Development Dr. Anwar Ali Shad, Director Quality Assurance Dr. Khurram Shehzad Saduzai, Deputy Director Planning and Development Dr. Dawood Nazim, Weather Vale representatives, Fawzia Hussain and Areba Arif, representative of informed farmer Malik Adnan and Additional Director of Pakistan Science Foundation Ghazala Ali Khan and a large number of students attended. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Jahan Bakht while speaking said that whenever climate change occurs, agriculture is the first target, agriculture is the source of livelihood for most of the women. Women have a great responsibility for agriculture, rural women, associated with agriculture. He said that climate change is happening rapidly, Pakistan is facing many problems due to climate change, including population growth, floods, droughts and extreme heat waves etc. \u201cIf climate change continues like this, the world will face a lot of problems in the future,\u201d he added. He emphasized that the students said: \u201cIt is your responsibility to inform the women around you about these issues, the whole family is associated with a woman.\u201d Highlighting the importance of water, she said that she herself should act sparingly in the use of water and also educate other women about sparing and understand the importance and use of water in agriculture. Registrar Dr. Rizwan Ahmed thanked the participants. Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Jahan Bakht, Registrar Dr. Rizwan Ahmed and representative of Weather Vale Fawzia Hussain distributed certificates of appreciation among the participating students.Malik Adnan, representative of informed farmers, presented the objectives of the awareness workshop and gave a lecture on the role of women in agriculture and there was a question and answer session by the students, which was highly appreciated by the students. APP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR: The Directorate of Student Counselling, Placement and Human Resource Development of the University of Agriculture Peshawar, with the cooperation of Weather Vale and Informed Farmers Islamabad, organized an awareness program for university students in the University of Agriculture Peshawar on the topic of \u201cSmart Climate Change and Women in Agriculture\u201d. A one-day workshop was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n