MINSK, 24 November (BelTA) – Pakistan has an interest in Belarusian technologies to develop domestic animal breeding and crop farming, Chairman of Pakistan’s Agricultural Research Council Yusuf Zafar noted as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Pakistan Andrei Yermolovich, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Embassy in Pakistan.
Pakistan invited the Belarusian Agriculture Ministry and the National Academy of Sciences to send a delegation of experts to the country in early 2018. The sides agreed to use the visit to hold substantive talks on the transfer of Belarusian technologies to increase milk production, produce vaccines for animal breeding, grow Belarusian seed potatoes, breed transgenic animals, and apply cutting-edge biotechnologies to increase the productivity of animal breeding.
According to the embassy, the visit of Belarusian experts will become a preliminary step towards sealing relevant deals on the sidelines of the second Belarus-Pakistan agricultural forum due in Minsk from 6 to 9 June 2018.