{"id":40477,"date":"2026-02-16T00:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40477"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:04:44","slug":"sau-approves-rs4-82b-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40477","title":{"rendered":"SAU approves Rs4.82b budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Annual budget of Rs4.82 billion for fiscal 2025-26 was approved during the 30th senate meeting of Sindh Agriculture University (SAU), Tandojam, which was held on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Universities remain a top priority of the Sindh government,&#8221; claimed Sindh Minister for Universities and Boards and Pro-Chancellor Muhammad Ismail Rahu, who chaired the meeting. He said the provincial government has enhanced sevenfold the budget of the higher education institutions over a small period of five years, pointing out that the outlay was a mere Rs six billion in 2021 against the present Rs43 billion. The minister warned that climate change is posing serious threats to agriculture, livestock, fisheries, wildlife and forestry sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Rahu also acknowledged that a shortage of certified seed in Sindh is a major challenge. Rahu emphasised on the need for enhanced research on soil health, water management, pesticides, fertilisers and sustainable agricultural practices.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual budget of Rs4.82 billion for fiscal 2025-26 was approved during the 30th senate meeting of Sindh Agriculture University (SAU), Tandojam, which was held on Saturday. &#8220;Universities remain a top priority of the Sindh government,&#8221; claimed Sindh Minister for Universities and Boards and Pro-Chancellor Muhammad Ismail Rahu, who chaired the meeting. He said the provincial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}