University welcomes first batch of Pakistani trainees

Northwest A&F University has welcomed its first batch of several hundred trainees under a Sino-Pakistan agricultural program that will send a total of 1,000 Pakistani agriculture graduates to China for advanced training, the university said.

A commitment to Pakistan's Initiative for Capacity Building of 1,000 Agriculture Graduates in China was made between the countries during Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's visit to China in June.

The trainees will travel to Shaanxi province in three batches for three months of training at NWAFU and Yangling Vocational and Technical College, Shaanxi authorities said. The first batch of 292 trainees attended the program's opening ceremony at NWAFU on April 18.