Pakistan, April 26 -- Syed Najeebullah Taran, an Assistant Director in Balochistan's Food Department responsible for food safety, quality control and monitoring food operations, completed a training program in Wuhan, China earlier this year. Now back at his post in Quetta, he is applying what he learned to transform food safety in his province, and he has just received approval for a PhD at Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU),Wuhan for further study.

The training course in seed production and processing technology is part of a capacity building initiative for 1,000 agricultural graduates of Pakistan, launched by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. "I joined this training to gain advanced knowledge, learn modern technologies, and improve m...