Published on, Sept. 25 -- September 25, 2025 1:24 AM

British High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott visited Okara on Thursday, where she inaugurated a modern farming system designed to help farmers conserve water, reduce costs, and produce better crops. The project is part of a UK-funded programme that promotes climate-smart farming in Pakistan.

The new system, called the Eddy Covariance Flux Tower, collects real-time information about water, carbon, methane and energy exchanges between farmland and the air. Experts say this technology is already helping the Punjab Irrigation Department manage water more efficiently and is also supporting the Ministry of Climate Change in preparing more robust reports about greenhouse gas emissions...