Facilities

Following are the facilities provided by the institute:

  • Data recording on physiological parameters like photosynthetic efficiency, leaf area, stomatal conductance, transpiration rate, cell membrane thermo stability, water potential, osmotic potential, DNA and protein extraction
  • Identification of weeds and their control
  • Testing of herbicides for their effectiveness to control weeds
  • Availability of meteorological data recorded at Faisalabad for facilitation of students and researchers
  • Advisory services for farmers regarding production technologies of major field crops, medicinal plants and jute crop
  • Facilitation for students of B.Sc., M.Sc. & Ph.D. in Agriculture regarding internship and supervision of research work
  • Display of innovative technologies like relay cropping of wheat in standing cotton and relay cropping of cotton in standing wheat, zero tillage wheat and cotton, bed planting, broadcast augmented with furrow planting of different crops, direct seeded rice
  • Maintenance of weed bank and herbal garden for demonstration to visitors especially students visiting from different institutes of Punjab
  • Availability of sugar leaf (Stevia rebaudiana) plants to the farmers for multiplication in Punjab