MUZAFFARABAD, May 24: A three-member team of a Canadian development agency visited several villages here on Wednesday to see for themselves the outcome of free distribution of seeds and fertiliser to farmers in the earthquake-hit areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Chaudhry Safdar Hussain, Deputy Director of AJK Agriculture Department, told Dawn that the team, comprising senior officials of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), was satisfied with the progress and execution of the programme.

The team, he said, was accompanied by a consultant of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation

(FAO) which had assisted the CIDA in distribution of 750 tons of wheat seed and two kinds of fertilisers among each of the farmers benefiting from the aid.