ISLAMABAD: Inter-Provincial Agricultural Research Coordination Committee (IPARCC) has stressed the need for active participation of all its members to meet with emerging challenges of food security, bio-energy and economic development of the country.
The committee, which met here with Chairman PARC Dr Yusuf Zafar in the chair, emphasized for reviewing the ongoing research activities, policies, issues and challenges confronting national agriculture system. The committee was constituted in 2007 with the prior approval of Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research and President PARC’s Board of Governors on the direction of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The committee emphasized that PARC and provincial institutes should work together for the benefit of the farmer communities across the country. Speaking on the occasion, the PARC chairman said that such events would be helpful to share the knowledge, on-going research activities, enhance collaboration to address the issues and challenges.