NARC organizes 3-day workshop on community-based seed system.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Agriculture Research Council in collaboration with SAARC Agriculture Center and Asian Farmers Association (AFA) organized a 3-day workshop to strengthen community-based seed systems for improving food and nutrition security in the country.

The workshop was held at the National Agriculture Research Center (NARC), aiming at to discuss the ways and means for strengthening community based seed system in South Asia to ensure food safety and security, said a press released issued by Pakistan Agriculture Research Council on Tuesday.

During the workshop, three type of papers were presented including national focal points experts gave presentation on strengthen community-based seed systems for Improving food and nutrition security in the country. The experts presented papers on thematic areas and farmer's leaders gave presentation on the best practices of community based seed system.

It was a high level seed forum for policy guiding to community seed systems and easy access to improved seeds to the small farmers. It was an informal arrangement wherein members of farming community or a group follows a collective system of producing, exchanging and selling good quality seeds especially in times of disaster.

Addressing to the inaugural ceremony, Rudra Bahadur Shrestha, Senior Programme Specialist, SAARC Agriculture Centre, Dhaka said that the Community Seed Banks give farmers access and control over seeds and strengthen local seed supply systems.

With CBSS farmers were able...