Free Seminar on Managing Research & Writing Thesis

Free Research Seminar by Dr. Ali Sajid, Sheikh Zahoor Sarwar, Adil Bilal Kahlown at PIM, Lahore

For joining send an email with credentials to confirm your seat. Emails at zahoorsarwar@live.com or at zahoorsarwar@yahoo.com

Have You Any New Idea???

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach!

Even the simplest innovations have always been a catalyst in reaching critical milestones and the development of countries.There is a great potential for the evolution of sustainable projects in key areas such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and agricultural technology.

This event will provide exclusive opportunity to the Undergraduate and Graduate students of Pakistan to share, present and propose their ideas, research and projects through presentations from the field of Renewable Energy solution, Health or Agriculture.
Students from all disciplines will be able to participate. Graduate (MS / PhD) students will be encouraged to present their thesis work.

Registration fee:
Rs. 750/- per team

Rules and Regulations:

• The ideas should be simple yet innovative and socially acceptable. Participants must be very clear about their respective ideas.
• This competition comprises of two rounds. In the first round, on 16/10/2014, individuals/teams will have to submit a manuscript regarding their idea/project, of maximum 400 words, in the provided format (find attachment below).
• Participants/teams will submit there manuscripts online by sending an email at "fahadimran6@gmail.com" till 3:00 pm on 16/10/2014
• Manuscript must be a word document
• After evaluating the manuscripts, individuals/teams with better and commendable ideas, will be selected for the second round. Selected participants will be be notified with in a day.There is no limit of selected teams for the second round.
• Second round will be held on Sunday,19/10/2014, at 2:00 pm. Selected Participants will have to present their ideas. They will be judged by their ideas,presentations and quality of opinion/views.
• Presentation time would be 5-7 minutes.
• Any software (like PowerPoint,Word,Adobe PDF) can be used for presentations.
• A small committee of adjudicators will decide winners. Decision of committee will be final.

Eligibility Criteria:

Anyone having a Matriculation or higher degree can apply.

Team Strength:

Maximum 2 members.

Prize for winners:

• Cash Prizes
• Certificates
• Shields

Event Head : Fahad Imran (FAST-NU)
Contact: 0305-6118170 / 0343-3331142
Or Visit: Event Page

Competition For Worst Kitchen Gardeners...

Mary, Mary quite contrary … How does your garden grow?"
I have a terrible kitchen garden.
Nothing seems to work for me. 
But I am most devoted kitchen gardener and not giving up easily and my quest to be good kitchen gardener will continue.
Yes this time competition is for worst kitchen gardener.
1 . Your name and where you live.
2.How long you have been kitchen gardening 
3.Share you experience what went wrong …pest attack, seeds not germinating and any other problem you are facing
4.You will share 2 worst pictures of vegetables you have grown infected with virus and pest and other problems.
The 10 most liked post get 8 free winter seeds. 
Also 3 members who give best advice to terrible kitchen gardener based on picture posted also get free seeds. 
Good luck to worst kitchen gardeners and KG doctors.
This event is hosting by Salma Kamal, the well known kitchen gardener from Islamabad.
So, come on and take part for the betterment of your garden...
Visit the event's official page:
Mary, Mary quite contrary … How does your garden grow?" Terrible KG Contest.

IPEX 2014

International Poultry Expo (IPEX)

Report by: Muhammad Jarrar Ahmed (Secretary General, Agri. Education Pakistan)

Dr. Sundus Akhtar (Area Coordinator, Agri. Education Pakistan)

Commercial or Modern Poultry in Pakistan is one of the largest agro based segment of Pakistan that was established in 1962, having an investment of more than 732 billions rupees. Poultry Industry of Pakistan is making a tremendous contribution in bridging the gap between the supply and demand of meat protein. About 25,000 poultry farms have been established in Pakistan. Moreover, the annual growth rate of poultry production is about 10 to 12%. While 40% of the total meat is being procured from poultry products. Furthermore, other poultry products that are producing annually in Pakistan are followed by table eggs: 9410 million; chicken meat: 953.600 metric tons.

The International Poultry Expo (IPEX) was arranged on 25th to 27th September, 2014 at Expo Center, Lahore. In this occasion different local and international poultry companies, poultry feed manufacturers, poultry farm consultants and poultry equipment manufacturing companies exhibited their products in this expo. Federal Minister of Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayyat Bosan inaugurated the International Poultry Expo. He elucidated his remarks on the topic of “Avian health”. He said that Pakistan was the 11th largest producer of broiler chickens in the world as its poultry sector was growing at a pace of 10% annually, adding that this sector had 6.1 % share in agriculture and 10.8% in livestock sector. “Brazil is the largest exporter of halal chicken to Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan has all the potential to make inroads to this market”, he said, adding that the country’s poultry industry could also exploit the need of Gulf countries for halal chicken. After the address of federal minister the proper event was started.

Different stalls were arranged in two halls followed by: Altininbek Makina (Turkey), Beijing Yuet International Exhibition Co. Ltd., Cherry Pharma Itn’l, Ghazi Brothers, Orient Animal Health, Fine Fabricator, Sb Pharma, Hilton Pharma, Biocure Pharma, Soypak, A & K Pharma, Kps Company, Descon Chemicals Limited, Vetmune Pharma, Euro Feed Technology, Pepco Pakistan, Big Bird Group (Pvt) Ltd, K & N’s Poultry, Um Enterprises, Agro Tech, Zagro Singapore Pte, Kausar Feeds, Jadeed Gap Frams Pvt Ltd and many more informative and interesting stalls were arranged in expo. Mr. Muhammad Saffer Abbas Jafery founder and President of Agri. Education Pakistan (AEP), Mr. Muhammad Jarrar Ahmed Secretary General of AEP, Dr. Sundus Akhtar Area Coordinator of AEP and Miss Rabia Shahid Vice President of AEP also participated as the coordinators on the behalf of AEP. The most interesting part of the IPEX is the talk of inspiring great personalities that was arranged in 25th September, 2014. Chief Organizer, Chaudhry Shaukat Hussain started the inaugural session of conference and enlightened the aims and objectives of IPEX. Other delegates Mr. Raza Mehmood Khursand, chairman of PPA (Northern Zone), Dr. Muhammad Aslam and Mr. Khalil Sattar also addressed on the importance of Poultry farming. 1st technical session was co-chair by Dr. Muhammad Sadiq and Dr. Naeem Tariq. In this session different speakers like Dr. Mustafa Kamal, Dr Hanif Nazir and Dr. Muhammad Riaz accosted on modern broiler management, spray & other vaccination techniques and modern layer management, respectively. The 2nd technical session was co-chair by Mr. Khalil Sattar and Dr. Khurram Shafi Qazi. In this session Dr. Khalid Naeem Khawaja elucidated on recent update of new castle disease. Moreover, Eng. Tariq Nazir closed this session with the informative talk on farm ventilation.

The event finally ended on 27th September with lots of informative ideas regarding poultry farming. By these innovative ideas we can flourish our poultry industry and In sha ALL in future our beloved country Pakistan will fall in largest poultry production in whole world.

AEP's Team At IPEX 2014

World Egg Day- Friday 10th October 2014

World Egg Day is celebrated every year on the second Friday in October. On World Egg Day, events are held across the world celebrating the egg.

The first World Egg Day was celebrated in 1996 and since then we have seen a variety of wonderful events taking place internationally, with people enjoying and celebrating the wonderful versatility of the egg.
There is so much to celebrate – Eggs have the potential to feed the world
Eggs have a vital role to play in feeding people around the world, in both developed and developing countries.  They are an excellent, affordable source of high quality protein, with the potential to feed the world.

This year World Egg Day is Friday 10th October

Whether you celebrate World Egg Day every year, or this will be your first time, make sure that this year on Friday 10th October, you get cracking and help to make this World Egg Day the biggest and the best ever. To help to get you in the mood, and start making plans, here are some examples of things that have been done in the past …

• Cook-off to find the region’s or nation’s fastest omelette maker.
• Family festivals – festivals have been held around the world, putting on eggciting fun and games for the whole family. Past festivals have included egg drawing competitions, egg throwing challenges, recipe contests and cooking competitions, as well as music and entertainment to bring people of all ages together to enjoy eggs.
• Recipe books containing a selection of delicious recipes using eggs.
• Shopping Centre cooking demonstrations and cook-offs.
• Tasty, nutritional seminars explaining the benefits of eggs.

Or, why not try …..

• Organising events for school and pre-school children. Encourage children to have fun with eggs, while teaching them about the nutritional benefits. Perhaps organise a sponsored egg and spoon race, with the money being donated to a national or international food project, or local community projects.
• School/community cooking competitions; who can create the best recipe incorporating eggs, or cook the tastiest dish?

These are just a few of our ideas, and some examples of things that have been done in the past. We hope that they help to inspire you, and we are sure you will have many more exciting ideas about how to celebrate the egg. Go on, get cracking!

Source: www.internationalegg.com