47 new varieties of agricultural commodity seeds approved in meeting.

RAWALPINDI -- Agricultural scientists should focus on developing new varieties of crops that can withstand the ongoing climate change and have high productivity with resistance to diseases, which will increase agricultural yields per acre and farmers' profit, this was stated by Provincial Minister for Agriculture Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi while presiding over the 54th meeting of Punjab Seed Council.

The meeting approved 47 new varieties of public-private sector agricultural commodity seeds.

Addressing on the occasion, Punjab Minister for Agriculture Syed Hussain Jahanian Gardezi congratulated the agricultural scientists on the development of new varieties and directed them to further improve the research trials/ data and for the future approval of varieties of agricultural commodities in Punjab Seed Council for Variety Registration and DNA was made conditional on fingerprinting in future.

The Provincial Minister urged the agricultural scientists to discover varieties that could be profitable while keeping the production cost of farmers in the field for five years or more. He said that on the direction of Chief...

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