Additional Chief Secretary pays visit to PAU

Ludhiana, October 29

Anirudh Tewari, Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Government of Punjab, visited Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) on Thursday. He interacted with deans, directors and scientists of the university. An exhibition showcasing the initiatives taken by the university in the past 10 years were displayed.

Tewari visited the stalls of fruit science, vegetable science, floriculture and landscaping, pulses, oilseeds, maize, forages, wheat, rice, cotton, sugarcane, natural resource management, agricultural biotechnology, agrometeorology, farm machinery (crop residue management), food processing, extension and teaching. After visiting various stalls, he thanked the PAU scientists for providing good information and lauded university’s accomplishments.

Dr Baldev Singh Dhillon, Vice-Chancellor, PAU, welcomed him and said the visit was aimed at apprising him of the initiatives and strides made by the university in agricultural research, teaching and transfer of technology.

Dr Dhillon honoured Tewari and presented him a set of PAU publications. Tewari also visited experimental area of rice and labs of beekeeping, tissue culture, mushroom, biotechnology, protected cultivation, farm mechanisation research hall and solar dryer at PAU. — TNS