Endowment Fund Secretariat
Scope of the UAP Endowment Fund:
- To support UAP programs for applied research in Agriculture, Livestock, Gender development and product commercialization.
- Strengthen training & out-reach programs of the University.
- Encourage linkages with other Institutions of research, private sector, NGOs and domestic & International organizations.
- Promote cooperation among scientists conducting Agricultural related research at Universities/Institutions in Pakistan & abroad.
Under the scope of Endowment Fund specified above, following are some of the key areas for fund utilization but are not restricted to the following:
AGRICULTURE:
- Support Agricultural Research activities in settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA
- Change cultivable wastelands & marginal lands into high value crop producing lands
- Improvement in the existing farm practices
- Post Harvest management
- Improvement in the Agricultural marketing system
- Food preservation and processing at household levels
- Promote and encourage Off-season vegetables
- Introduction and dissemination of improved varieties
- Agro-Forestry
- Water Resource Development and management
- Introduction of high value crops
- Integrated Pest Management
- Bee keeping and mushroom production
- Seed production and multiplication
- Farming Research system
- Rain- Fed Agriculture
LIVESTOCK:
- Strengthening of Livestock health services
- Livestock breed improvement
- Improvement of Livestock Feed services
- Marketing of Livestock, Poultry and products
- Fodder and Forages improvement
GENDER DEVELOPMENT:
- Training programme in Agriculture & Livestock
- Complementary Enterprises
- Kitchen Gardening
- Integrated Nutrition Management programme
- Livestock & Poultry enterprises
- Mushroom production trainings
GENERAL:
- Agriculture and Veterinary Education Support Programme.
- Need Based Special Extension Programme in all disciplines of Agriculture & Livestock.
- Farmers Field School for Crop Production.
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