PARC interventions in technological transformation laudable: Fakhar.

Islamabad -- Conventional agricultural practice is not only a laborious and time consuming process but also cause low yield and post harvest losses.

To cope the challenges in mechanization of agriculture, Chairman PARC Dr. Muhammad Azeem Khan arranged a field demonstration of mechanical pruner in presence of Federal Minister for M/o National Food Security and Research, Syed Fakhar Imam at Citrus Orchard of NARC.

DG NARC, Engr. Shamimul Sibtain Shah and other high officials also joined the field demonstration.

This was a single arm pruner, having five saw disc cutters on it. The pruner machine mounted on an 85-hp tractor is delivered to Agricultural Engineering Institute (AEI), NARC by Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute (AMRI), Multan on the request of Chairman, PARC for demonstration purpose.

The machine is tractor front-mounted and is operated by hydraulic pump and motors operated by tractor PTO shaft.

It can prune all kinds of orchards like;apple, apricot, cherry, olives,mango, citrus, guava and...