Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Pakistan Basmati Heritage Basis (PBHF), a consortium of Basmati rice exporters, organized seminars to create consciousness amongst the growers and different stakeholders of the rice worth chain for enhancing productiveness and meals security via the utilization of licensed seeds and considered utility of pesticides. The seminars held at Narowal and Mandi Bahauddin have been attended by the farmers, exporters and representatives of Ebro Meals (a world grain firm) and Eurofins offering testing, certification and different services to exporters. Juan Parious Soto Business Director of Ebro Meals talking on this event mentioned that higher crop productiveness for larger volumes via licensed seeds & monitoring of pesticides residue was essential since Import Tolerances (IT) have been being revised periodically by the European Union (EU), USA & Gulf international locations. He mentioned that our merchandise are going to the high-end market and we’ve got to maintain the pesticide residue beneath the IT requirements. Antonio Hernandez Chairman of Ebro Meals (Ebro, Herba & Tilda) instructed the viewers that being the world’s largest importer of basmati rice he was formidable to double the Basmati rice import. Tariq Mahmood Focal Particular person of Ebro Meals &CEO of GRS added that Compliant Exportable Basmati rice means purity, high quality, traceability & meals security. Dr Alexander Zahm MD Eurofins Germany together with Dr Werner Nadder Former MD Eurofins shared the comparability of export dynamics of Basmati rice between India & Pakistan together with fast alerts generated for pesticides & aflatoxin. Sh. Adnan Aslam Co-convener of PBHF and Govt Director of MAP Rice welcomed the international friends for visiting Pakistan & shared a snapshot of the rice sector, significantly basmati rice. He apprised the members concerning the potential of exports by boosting rice productiveness whereas preserve guaranteeing meals security. Imran Sheikh & Raja Arslan Khan Nationwide Coordinators of PBHF moderated each seminars & defined the context of the go to of worldwide patrons. He underlined the utilization of licensed seed & accountable use of pesticides to satisfy import tolerance requirements. REAP Senior Vice Chairman Haseeb Khan and MC member Ali Narang shared their insights for growing the share of basmati rice exports within the world market via new seeds and pesticide stewardship. Samee Ullah Naeem Former Chairman Rice Exporters Affiliation of Pakistan threw mild on the significance of agriculture and suggested the policymakers to plan farmer-centric insurance policies for reworking the agriculture sector. He mentioned that we have to deal with producing extra meals together with rice per unit of land. Tackle the water & agrochemicals within the difficult state of affairs of the shortage of above with added local weather change & a number of threat elements, he emphasised. Dr. Anjum Ali Buttar DG Agri. Ext. briefed concerning the insights & outcomes of the PM Emergency Rice Productiveness undertaking for selling mechanization, & licensed seeds. Dr Ihsan ul Haq, Dr Amir Mumtaz & Dr Farrrukh Mehboob Program Leaders of IPM, Publish-Harvest & Ecotoxicology respectively from the Pakistan Agriculture Analysis Council (PARC) sensitized the members on the protected & accountable use of agrochemicals in rice manufacturing for guaranteeing meals security & high quality. Shahid Tarer Convener (PBHF) & MD Galaxy Rice defined concerning the imaginative and prescient of PBHF in bringing collectively all provide chain actors for higher integration of ahead & backward basmati rice worth chain via solution-oriented methods to deal with underlying challenges of the rice sector. He briefed the members concerning the function of PBHF in establishing the Nationwide Chapter of SRP in Pakistan. Javed Iqbal & Dr Irfanullah Warraich Divisional Administrators Agri. Ext Gujranwala & Gujrat addressed farmers on good agriculture practices for acquiring higher yields & earnings. He appreciated the PBHF for implanting SRP requirements & digitization of traceability from farm to fork. Rana Faqir Ahmed DG of Pest Warning & High quality Management sensitize farmers on the significance of the best utility timing primarily based on pest ETL (Financial threshold degree) & PHI (Pre-harvest interval) to maintain rice grains free from pesticide residues. Dr Hiz Jamali from Asian Improvement Financial institution & Dr Kashif Salik from Sustainable Improvement Coverage Institute (SDPI) additionally participated.