NUMS held a seminar to increase its cooperation with various organizations to guarantee quality education and achieve excellence in research in agriculture.
The National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) held a seminar on Sunday in an effort to increase its cooperation with various organizations to guarantee quality education and achieve excellence in research in agriculture, a key sector of the national economy.
The NAEAC of Higher Education Commission (HEC) established policies, procedures, and criteria for the BS programme in Human Nutrition and Dietetics that NUMS Department of Nutrition & Dietetics (NDND) used to implement a comprehensive programme of accreditation for agriculture and related education degree programmes. This was done to ensure that agriculture education met high standards.
SDG 4—Quality Education—was aligned with the NAEAC’s Quality Assurance and Accreditation Awareness Seminar.
Dr. Abdul Momin, the director of NDND stated that Pakistan’s population had already surpassed the 230 million mark and was expected to nearly double in size within 36 years given the country’s current annual growth rate of 1.8%.
Therefore, if efforts were not made to maximise crop yields and in the face of shrinking agricultural land, it would become increasingly difficult to provide food for an ever-growing population.
According to him, it is essential to raise the bar for agriculture-related courses so that less land can produce maximum yields using the most recent agricultural research.
Additionally, he mentioned the Japanese concept of vertical farming, the trickle irrigation system used to water crops in Pakistan, a country with limited water resources, and the concept of intercropping to increase crop yield.
In his remarks on the occasion, Secretary NAEAC Dr. Abdul Ghaffar gave the assurance that NAEAC would fully support the universities in Pakistan in raising the standards of agriculturally related courses in order to produce students who are well-equipped with the most recent methods to significantly increase crop yields.
He went into great detail about the internal and external evaluation criteria and focused on four key areas, including the strength and quality of the faculty, the design and development of the curriculum, the infrastructure and learning resources, and the support and progression of the students.
Prof. Dr. Aisha Mohyuddin, Dr. Umar Farooq, and other senior academic staff members and students attended the seminar.