Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre team visits UVAS.

LAHORE -- An Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) delegation, led by Lt-Gen (retd) Nadeem Ahmad visited the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore to discussed climate change issues, here on Tuesday.

The delegation head, along with Director Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) Dr Farhan Jamil chaired the meeting and sought suggestions/ technical input from the UVAS faculty members to address global climate change issues.

Nadeem Ahmad urged the UVAS faculty members to apply for attaining Global Climate Fund Accreditation. He is willing to collaborate with the UVAS to address the climate adaptation challenges, he added.

Dr Farhan Jamil said that the UVAS was working with livestock, poultry, dairy and food industries in Pakistan. He said the university was a research intensive centre and currently its faculty members were executing 110 research projects, which were won from national and...