Agricultural Machinery Distributed Among Winners Of Crop Production Contest

Commissioner Bilal Ahmad Butt here Thursday distributed agricultural machinery as prizes among the farmers declared winners in a divisional level crop production contest.

MULTAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Apr, 2018 ) :Commissioner Bilal Ahmad Butt here Thursday distributed agricultural machinery as prizes among the farmers declared winners in a divisional level crop production contest.

The ceremony was held at Central Cotton Research Institute (CCRI) Multan where successful farmers who had participated in production contests of seven different crops including mango, cotton, kino, paddy, maize, guava and potato, received prizes.

Forty-five farmers of Multan, Vehari, Lodhran and Khanewal were given agricultural machinery worth millions of rupees, says a release. Top winners of cotton production contest included Malik Muhammad Hafeez (Multan), Muhammad Aslam (Khanewal), Hafiz Khubaib (Vehari), and Major (Retd) Hussain Mustehsan (Lodhran) who claimed the first prize.

Kino production contest winners included Muhammad Saeed (Vehari) and Muhammad Asif (Khanewal). Guava production contest winners included Muhammad Akram (Vehari), and Inayat Ali (Khanewal).

Mursaleen Athar from Vehari and Naeemullah from Khanewal won the maize production contest.

Mango production contest was won by Muhammad Riaz (Multan) and Syed Fakhar Imam (Khanewal). Potato production contest winners included Chaudhry Bashir Ahmad (Vehari), and Imran Shahid (Khanewal).

Basmati rice production contest was won by Muhammad Shafiq (Vehari), and Muhammad Nasir (Khanewal). The machinery awarded to farmers as prize included Rotovators, Tractor-mounter stress sprayers, Engine wheel Harrow sprayers, cotton ridgers, tractor-mounted boom sprayers, disk harrow, potato planter, mango orchard sprayers, and zero tillage drills.

Former NA Speaker Syed Fakhar Imam, MPA Mehdi Abbas Langah, chairman Zila Council Diwan Abbas Bukhari, Vice Chancellor Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture Dr. Asif Ali, deputy mayor Multan Munawwar Ehsan Qureshi, director agriculture extension Rana Ahmad Muneer, director cotton Dr. Sagheer and other officials attended the ceremony.