International Seminar
on
Seed Production and Supply System
26 December, 2013
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Please send the filled-in-form up to 23 December, 2013 along with registration fees (Rs.500/-) to:
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali, Associate Professor
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad
Cell: 0321 6999974
E-Mail: zulfiqar_ali@uaf.edu.pk
Organizing Team
PROGRAMME
Time
Activity
08:00 - 09:00
Registration
Prof. Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan (Sitara-e-Imtiaz)
09:00 - 09:05
Inauguration
Vice Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
09:05 - 09:10
Recitation from Holy Quran
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Arshad (T.I)
09:10 - 09:15
Welcome
(Dean Faculty of Agriculture)
Prof. Dr. Asif Ali Khan
Prof. Dr. Asif Ali
09:15 - 09:45
Status of seed industry in Pakistan: Challenges (Director, ORIC-UAF)
and opportunities
Prof. Dr Abdus Salam Khan
Dr. Noor-ul-Islam, Ex-DG Research, Pakistan
(Chairman Dept. of Plant Breeding and Genetics)
09:45 - 10:45
The Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships in Dr Zulfiqar Ali
Seed Industry
(Associate Professor, PBG, UAF)
Prof. Dr. Dennis Thompson, Southern Illinois Dr. M. Hammad Nadeem Tahir
University, USA
(Assistant Professor, PBG, UAF)
10:45 - 11:00
Tea Break
Dr. Muhammad Kashif
11:00 - 12:00
Seed Certification, Seed Testing, Seed Production (Assistant Professor, PBG, UAF)
and Seed Regulatory Systems in the U.S. - Lessons
Dr. Muhammad Aslam
Learned: Role of high quality seed in agriculture
(Assistant Professor, PBG, UAF)
Dr. Fawad Salman Shah, Director Seed Regulatory and
Dr. Muhammad Atif
Testing Division, USDA, Gastonia, NC
(Assistant Professor, PBG, UAF)
Seed Industry in Pakistan: Legislative and Dr. Muhammad Tehseen Azhar
Institutional framework
(Lecturer, PBG, UAF)
12:00 - 12:30
Dr. Muhammad Ahsan Rana
12:30 - 12:45
Concluding Remarks- Prof. Iqrar A. Khan (S.I.)
Vice Chancellor, UAF
12:45 - 01:00
Vote of Thanks
Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam Khan
01:00 - 02:00
Lunch Break
02:00 - 02:45
Potential collaborative efforts between UAF and
Mississippi State University
Dr. Fawad Salman Shah, Director Seed Regulatory and
02:45 - 03:15
Farmers’ Seed Cooperatives
Dr. Shahzad Kausar, Assistant Professor, Agri.
03:15 - 04:00
Seed Technology Program Curriculum for UAF
Dr. Fawad Salman Shah, Director Seed Regulatory and
Testing Division, USDA, Gastonia, NC
Economics, UAF
Testing Division, USDA, Gastonia, NC
Venue:
Video conferencing Hall
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
Registration Deadline:
December 23, 2013
Registration Fee:
Rs.500
Prof. Dr. Asif Ali, Director ORIC
Phone: +92 41 9200183
Email: asifpbg@uaf.edu.pk
Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam Khan
Chairman, Dept. of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Phone: +92 41 9200161-70/2921
Email: drabdussalamuaf@yahoo.com
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali
Associate Professor, Dept. of Plant Breeding and
Genetics
Phone: +92 41 9200161-70/2929, Cell:03216999974
Email: zulfiqar_ali@uaf.edu.pk
International
Seminar on
Seed
Production
and Supply System
26 December, 2013
Organized
By
Dept. Plant Breeding and Genetics
&
Office of Research,
Innovation and Commercialization
University of Agriculture,
Faisalabad, Pakistan
There is a big gap between yield potential and
economic yield for most of the crops. Several
factors are held responsible for this gap, among
them availability of quality seed is important
factor because the effectiveness of all other
inputs depends primarily potential of the seed.
Even with the ideal conditions of soil, water and
climate, maximum yields cannot be obtained with
genetically inferior and low quality seed as planting
material. Effective use of improved and certified
produce as seed for repeated cultivation which is
inferior in quality. Even seed companies do not
have enough infrastructures to produce quality
seed. Total seed requirement of various crops in
Pakistan during 2011-12 was around 1.500 million
metric tons. Local seed industry supplied only 0.347
million metric tons while 0.137 million metric tons
was imported which mainly included paddy, maize,
oilseeds, fodder and vegetables. The farmers ran
short of 1.144 million metric tons of good quality
(especially during rainy season), which accelerates
its deterioration. So, it is direly needed that seed
production technology of major crops should be
optimized for local (national) seed production. This
would cut the losses in foreign exchange reserves
and would ensure the supply of cheap seeds to the
farmers in Pakistan.
seed can result in higher agricultural production,
which leads to increased net incomes of farming
families. Improving access to good quality seed is
a critical requirement for sustainable agricultural
growth and food security, and essential to achieve
production targets. The planting of good quality
seed costs a little but pays more, and according
to an estimate, by using good quality seed, yield
can be increased 15-20 percent. Thus availability
of quality seed will enhance efficiency of the food
production process.
Plant breeding system is developing improved
varieties which have the potential to meet the
emerging challenges but production of enough
quality seed available to all the farmers is a big
challenge. In most of the cases, farmers keep their
seed. The cost incurred in importing seed was very
high (PKR 3287 millions) and is increasing every
year.
The situation further demands the production
of quality seed of various crops at national level,
both by the companies and also by farmers.
Ignorance of the seed producers from key factors
affecting seed production results in low seed
yield and poor seed quality. There is limited or no
research on ameliorating poor seed production
practices (during seed development, harvesting
and drying), seed processing, and testing of
seeds of newly released varieties against different
kinds of stresses. The problem is amplified when
locally produced seed is stored under ambient
conditions of high temperature and high humidity
Development of viable seed industry requires human
resource and research facilities to produce and test
the quality of seed. This international seminar is a
capacity building activity which provides a forum to
the stake-holders of the seed industry to discuss
the ways of strengthening their capacities.