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Pakistan to benefit from Chinese hybrid rice technology

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Beijing, China
March 20, 2009

Source: Business Recorder via Pakistan Biotechnology Information Center (PABIC)

Pakistan wants to benefit in the field of agriculture and particularly in enhancing rice production by employing Hybrid rice technology developed by an expert from Hunan province, said Pakistans Ambassador to China, Masood Khan. Pakistan largely benefited from the Hybrid rice seeds developed by Professor Yuan Long Ping, who is popularly known as Father of Hybrid Rice, said Ambassador Khan in an interview published in Xiao Xiang Morning Herald.

In fact, Professor Yuan has co-operation with a Pakistans private sector enterprise, Khan said, adding that the Hybrid rice seeds provided by him has successfully grown in Pakistan. We do hope that Professor Yuan may transfer the hybrid rice technology to Pakistan in the near future, Khan noted. He also expressed the desire of signing co-operative agreement with Professor Yuan to enhance rice yield in Pakistan.

The Ambassador also said that he knows Professor Yuans reputation long-time ago. He achieved a major scientific breakthrough in breeding high-yielding hybrid rice varieties that earned fame for him not only in Hunan and in China, but also widely acknowledged around the world.

Regarding just concluded NPC and CPPCC sessions, Ambassador Khan pointed out that these were very important meetings, as decisions taken made at these two sessions will not only impact China, but also leave positive influence world-wide. To represent interests of 1.3 billion Chinese people is not an easy thing to do, however, the NPC and CPPCC sessions have achieved a lot in this regard.

On fighting extremism and terrorism in Pakistan, he said that his country was pursuing a three pronged strategy also known as 3-Ds, that means to have dialogue with moderate militants, to develop economy in the rural areas and to disarm the local people. Regarding Sino-Pak co-operation in diverse areas, the Ambassador also pointed out that in the past year, skyrocketing price of crude oil and shortage of food have cast shadow on Pakistans economy.

However, in that difficult time, China extended its valuable assistance to Pakistan in terms of international payments. More importantly, many Chinese investments have come to Pakistan in the fields of infrastructure construction, energy, telecommunication, coal-power plant, hydro-power plant and railways.

 

 

 

 

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