Classes for agrochemical licenses begin in Sialkot

Sialkot: Pest Warning and Quality Control of Pesticides has started classes for obtaining new and renewed agrochemical licenses in the district. The classes were being organized under the auspices of agriculture department. Deputy Director (DD) Pest Warning and Quality Control of Pesticides, Department of Agriculture (Plant Protection) Sialkot Dr Maqsood Ahmed, Tehsil Pesticide Inspector Sialkot Zohaib Ahmed, Tehsil Pesticide Inspector Pasrur Shoaib Rasool Paswart and Tehsil Pesticide Inspector Sambrial Saba Tahsin were supervising the classes. Talking to reporter here on Thursday, Dr Maqsood Ahmed said that during the 15-day session, 107 candidates were attending classes for new license and 45 for renewal license. The DD Pest Warning and Quality Control of Pesticides said that Pakistan was an agrarian country, adding that an agricultural revolution could be brought about in the country by providing proper agricultural education to citizens. In the Pesticide Dealers Training Program, he said t
he participants would be taught the methods of acquiring and selling agricultural drugs, groups of agricultural poisons and their classification, proper use of fertilizers, importance of fruit fly traps, wheat diseases, insects and their prevention, characteristics of Hepicides store, record maintenance, identification of dengue mosquito, symptoms and prevention of fever, identification and control of locust, corn weeds, harmful insects, diseases and their identification and control methods, methods of agricultural drug sampling and harmful insect diseases of paddy crops and their identification and control methods.