Punjab Seed Council (PSC) on Thursday approved nine new varieties of different crops including three maize varieties and one variety each of wheat, green pea, ground nut, sorghum, seedless kinnow, mong beans and canola. The Council also asked for submitting again for approval one variety of millet after another year of research. The Council met here at the Punjab Agriculture House with the Secretary Agriculture Muhammad Sheharyar Sultan in the chair.
The Punjab Agriculture Secretary also constituted a sub-committee for complete review of cases of 19 BT cotton and 2 Non-BT cotton varieties and 11 varieties of mangoes. The Secretary of the Seed Council will head this committee which, after thorough analysis submit recommendations to the provincial secretary agriculture. The meeting was attended by the Secretary Seed Council Punjab Khaqan Babar, Director General Federal Seed Certification and Registration Department Dr Muhammad Shakeel, Cotton Commissioner Dr Khalid Abdullah, other high ups of the agriculture and other relevant departments and progressive farmer Bilal Israel Khan.