PESHAWAR, May 7: Forty Afghan professionals have completed a training course here at the NWFP Agricultural University and will leave for home soon to help their war-ravaged country attain agricultural rehabilitation. A series of training courses was organized by the water management department on ‘irrigation and water management practices’ and by the department of agricultural economics on ‘post harvest management and marketing’, said a press release issued here on Saturday.

The university conducted theses four-week training programmes in collaboration with the University of Illinois, USA.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Said Khan Khalil, who was chief guest at the closing ceremony of the training workshop on Saturday, said on the occasion that 18 short courses had so far been completed.