FAISALABAD, Oct 6: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad will organise a two-day international symposium on global food security from Oct 13.

Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, who is chancellor of all public universities, will be the chief guest at the symposium on sustainable agriculture under changing climate scenario, crop growth modelling and improvement through molecular techniques and control of crop diseases through technological advances.

The event is being organised in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission.

Dean faculty of agriculture Dr Iftikhar Ahmad said scientists from the United States, Canada and Australia would participate in the symposium. He said the symposium would prove to be a platform for elite scientists of the world engaged in agricultural research and development to interact and find possible solution to meet the current and future threats to global food security.

He said the event would enable the scientists to discover new horizons to precision agriculture, innovative technologies in agriculture coupled with scope of cost effective material for pressurised irrigation. He said five renowned experts from Sydney University, Australia, would speak through videoconference on climatic changes with special reference to food security.