FAISALABAD: A day-long training workshop for home gardening was arranged by the Department of Botany, Government College Women University, Faisalabad (GCWUF) here on Thursday.
Principal Investigator Home Gardening Project and Chairman Entomology Department Prof Dr Muhammad Jalal Arif was chief resource person while Dr Muzammal Jahangirand Dr Dildar Khan were focal persons. Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Zile Human Nazli appreciated the project being carried out under Agriculture University and hoped that home gardening would be promoted in the society in coming days. She said that vegetables were an important part of our daily life, adding that home gardening would not only provide healthy vegetables free from harmful effects of pesticides but also save
hundreds of thousands rupees per year for an individual. He hoped that counseling as well as training of people would help promote home gardening in the society.