Agric varsity should focus on research � MPs

Legislators who took to the floor in support of the Bill, said lack of research had crippled the sector - which prior to independence and thereafter - contributed to about 80 percent of the GDP down to just two percent presently.

Former education minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi said the transformation of the college to a university should have adequate budgetary provisions for research undertaking, which would in turn revive the agricultural sector.