The board of 9 directors has been elected.
More than 100 people have attended the meeting and 32 members have joined the association including two associared members.
The board of directors has elected his president: Mr. Saidajan ABDIANI during his meeting 20 October 2008.
More information on www.afghanseed.org
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( 3.2 / 345 )The new National Seed Secretariat is situated in close proximity to the Central Seed Testing Laboratory in Kabul and accommodates the apex institutions for coordinating seed industry functions in Afghanistan, comprising the National Seed Board and its affiliated bodies namely the Variety Release Committee, the Seed and Plant Health Inspectorate, the Seed Certification Agency, and the Afghanistan National Seed Association. The National Seed Board will be proclaimed upon ratification of the Seed Law, which is currently at parliament level for consideration. The Seed Board will function as the highest body in the seed sector with overall oversight for the management of the national seed programme and having autonomy and freedom to carry out its functions.
[From FAO press release]
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( 3 / 322 )During a recent visit to Kazakhstan the question of royalties implementation and collection has been raised during many different meetings with members of the Ministry of Agriculture.
A member of Kazagroinnovations said: "As for the position of Minagri, it was a request of the current minister of agriculture to develop such a system. What we will do this year: we will study European and Australian systems and then have a meeting with the Minister and aprove our concept on how we should proceed..."
Kazakhstan is still not a member of UPOV but there is a Kazakh Law on plant protection.
Will this royalty issue will drive Kazakhstan to apply for UPOV membership, this is not known currently?
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( 3 / 273 )Precision Viticulture and Agriculture
Plantation and Native Forest Management
Environmental Monitoring
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SALES REPRESENTATIVE AGREEMENT
A Sales Representative Agreement was made and entered on June 8, 2008, by and between Specterra, an Australian corporation, and JLDuval Consulting for FRANCE
A first significant contract for more than 500 ha to generate the Plant Cell Density and NDVI images for vine canopy pixels has been done.
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( 3.1 / 390 )Turkey July 08
Expert Seed Association / Workshop Facilitator
In the framework of the project TCP/INT/302 "Strengthening seed supply in the ECO region, with specific emphasis on Central Asia", under the overall direction of the Seed Production of AGPS and the head of ICARDA Seed Unit, in collaboration with AGPS officers, ECO Secretariat staff and delegates to the Consultative Meetings on Establishment of a Regional Seed Association the consultant will carry out the following task: Formulate guideline and checklist of key issues for consideration in assessing the potential of stakeholders coming together to form seed associations.
ECO countries:
- Afghanistan
- Azerbaijan
- Iran
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Pakistan
- Tajikistan
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
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