TOBA TEK SINGH, April 5: Agriculture University Faisalabad vice-chancellor Dr Bashir Ahmad has claimed that a technology of sowing of crops called “bed plantation” invented by his varsity scientists has met with success as the growers for the first time are enjoying a record 60 maund per acre wheat production.

Speaking to a gathering of farmers at Chak 267-GB near Rajana on Wednesday, he said bed plantation was the future technology which would also save extra use of irrigation water and it was applicable for wheat and all other crops’ cultivation.

He said the UAF had set up two years ago its campus in Toba Tek Singh and the farmers and their sons were taking much interest in getting admission to various short farming courses.

Water Management director-general Dr Mushtaq Gill said the ground laser-levelling machines would be provided in all 82 union councils of the district and the growers would get those at nominal rent to level their farmlands. The technology, he said, would improve the per-acre yield of all crops.

Scientists Dr Sher Muhammad, Dr Ashfaq Ahmad, Agriculture EDO Bashir Bhatti and tehsil nazim Javed Iqbal also spoke on the occasion.