I am a Master’s student of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island and working on agricultural mechanization and machinery automation. My research project focuses on the automation of wild blueberry harvesters to minimize the harvest losses, increase machine efficiency, reduce driver fatigue and workload to ensure the better harvest produces quality.

I am originally from Pakistan, where I received my bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Engineering in 2016 and a Master’s degree in Agricultural Engineering with Major subjects Farm Machinery & Power in 2018 from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. After that, I served as an agricultural field engineer in the different technical projects entitled “Enhancing Technology-Based Agriculture and Marketing in Rural Area of Punjab” and” Strengthen Food Security Post-COVID-19 and Locust Attacks”. The focus in these projects was machine evaluation and literacy training for farmers on Paddy, Wheat, and Maize cob picker harvesters.

I genuinely believe that with the continuously growing world food demands and increase in production cost the adoption of farm mechanization is inevitable. The promotion and adoption of advanced technologies will help save time, cost, energy, and environment, increase the crop production and play vital role in the prosperity of the farmers and country.