SIALKOT, Nov 21: Four people, including a woman, were killed while 14 others sustained injuries in an accident on the Daska-Sialkot Road, near MR Link canal bridge, on Wednesday.
A bus (GL-5590) was on its way to Sialkot from Daska when it collided head-on with a wagon (LHO-1970). The bus plunged into a ravine while the wagon overturned.
The injured were taken to the Daska Civil Hospital in critical condition.
Two of the deceased were identified as Liaquat Ali of Shakargarh and Shamim Akhtar of Gujranwala.
The injured included Riaz, Shahzad, Muhammad Malik, Afzal, Iqbal bibi, Fareeda, Qasim, Rafiq, Rizwan, Arif, Jamil, Abdul Jamil, Ghulam Nabi and Sajjad Ahmad.
Meanwhile, Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has sought a report about the accident from the Sialkot district government.
FOOD PROJECT: The Food and Agriculture Organization assisted a food security pilot project which has been successfully completed in Malo Mehay village, Daska in two years stipulated time.
Official sources told newsmen on Wednesday that the project had brought high yields of rice and wheat crops in the area.
Meanwhile, federal government has decided to expand this programme in 100 villages in the country.
Sources said the organization had provided the facility of input and machinery while the provincial agriculture department staff had provided necessary assistance and cooperation to the growers and farmers in the village.
The Malo Mehay village consists of 358 hectares agriculture land, 176 tubewells and 112 farmers.
The modern technology had been transferred to the growers and farmers under the project for giving a boost to per acre yield of different crops especially rice and wheat.
The main objective of the programme was to supplement the ongoing projects to increase food production through enhancing productivity.
It will also reduce seasonal and year to year variability in production on environmentally sustainable basis.
The approach of the programme was technology-led. Field activities were implemented under farmers’ leadership and participation while the programme had provided technical assistance and means and tools for the effective implementation.
Being the multi-disciplinary programme, it was meant to cover the whole process. The programme had ensured the benefits flow to small farmers and poor people.
The major crops in the village are wheat and rice, however, several other including sunflower, sugarcane, potato and fodder are also grown.
Sources maintained a small poultry shed had been constructed where 500 birds had been supplied. Small poultry sheds, each containing 50 birds, had been established and it would be run by the housewives in the village.
The construction cost of each shed was Rs5,000 which was non-refundable and these sheds had successfully been functioning in the area.
A village each in Sialkot and Sargodha in were selected by the FAO for the purpose.