The Indian and Asian seed industries have lost one of their true promoters and champions for small and medium seed producers, in the sad untimely demise of Mr. Kollipara Niranjan Kumar on 8 May 2021.
The APSA Executive Committee and Secretariat would like to express our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the family, friends and associates of Buta Singh Kanwal, who passed away recently.
Bert van der Feltz will step down as president and CEO of East-West Seed. Van der Feltz will be succeeded by Douwe Zijp – currently Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the company.
Representives of seven international seed industry and plant breeders ortganizations are praising a move by the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) to adopt new Explanatory Notes (EXN) on Essentially Derived Varieties (EDVs).
Tainan and Bangkok: Some 208 participants, representing 31 member seed companies of the 2021 APSA-World Vegetable Center Vegetable Breeding Consortium met online May 11-12 to discuss and diliberate on promising vegetable R&D progress.