HYDERABAD: Office bearers of the Association of All Sindh Seeds (AASS) have urged the federal government not to decentralise seed component as provinces are already overburdened and can damage this important component of the agriculture sector.
Speaking at a press conference at local press club on Sunday, the association’s president Nadeem Shah, general secretary Nawaz Nizamani and others said that they, the growers from Sindh, also owned seed companies as after 18th Amendment the agriculture sector was decentralised, but the federal government still retained some components of agriculture like food security and seed.
They said that seed component was governed by the Federal Seed Certification and Registration Department (FSC&RD), but the federal government wanted to hand over this component to all the provinces.