Lucknow: The 6th National Seed Congress was held in Lucknow last week. It dwelt on major issues related to agriculture, most important being production of genetically modified (GM) crops and high yielding variety of seeds. Mr. Akhilesh Yadav, Honorable CM of Uttar Pradesh, was the chief guest at the sixth edition of the congress which was hosted in UP for the first time.
Our Chairman Mr. M Prabhakar Rao presented a lead paper on ‘Seed Planning – Private Sector Perspective’. Appreciating India’s growth in Seed market from 2005 to 2012, Chairman suggested that conventional breeding supported by biotech tools in all crops suitable to all agro-climatic zones and improving the seed replacement rate (SRR) through farmer extension education programmes in PPP mode will help continue the momentum.
Chairman added, “India has tremendous potential to supply quality seed to international markets. This can be achieved through aggressively perusing the introduction of existing hybrids into similar agro-climatic regions like SAARC and South East Asian countries and actively taking forward the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated by Ministry of Agriculture”.
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