CABI South Asia
Our core areas of focus are:
Invasive species management
Integrated crop management
Farmer participatory technology development and dissemination
Training and advocacy
Farmer field schools
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CABI South Asia has a total of 67 members of staff, including Regional Director, Dr M. Ashraf Poswal. Our main areas of expertise
Our main business is assisting national institutes, non-governmental institutions/organizations and the private sector to develop integrated crop management (ICM) for a number of crops including cotton, rice, wheat, tropical fruits (mango and citrus), temperate fruits (apple, peach, apricot, grapes etc), and vegetables.
On sugarcane the main focus now is on optimizing use of freshwater along with assisting and training the private sector for provision of biological control services to growers.
Another focus of CABI South Asia is to develop agricultural based rural livelihoods in disaster hit areas using farmer participatory technology development and dissemination methodologies in the crop and livestock sector. |
We also provide technical assistance in the adoption of good agricultural practices in a range of crops. This assists stakeholders in the value chain in order to meet ecological (IPM, ICM, organic), and/or Eurepgap/HACCP standards.
Our centre is equipped with international telecommunications facilities, well-maintained laboratories and a leading library for crop protection literature.
We have:
- the insect collection housed with us containing over 200,000 specimens. Most of the collection originates from Pakistan, but there are also specimens from Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia and India
- our insect identification service
- short training courses
- specialist staff in our ISM, Rural Knowledge Systems, and Commodity Value Chain, biological control, Integrated Crop Management, and farmer participatory technology development and dissemination
- close links with Pakistan’s Ministry of Food
- Agriculture and Livestock, and the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, and the provincial research and extension systems
Our sponosors and partners include:
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre (PARC)
Government of Punjab-Pakistan
Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Board
UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Pakistan Science Foundation
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)
Pakistan Sugar Mills
Our clients have benefited from our project implementation experience in South Asia, and particularly |
Contact Address:
Opposite I-A,
Data Gunj Baksh Road
Satellite Town
P.O. Box 8
Rawalpindi-Pakistan
Tel: +92-51-929-0132
Fax: +92-51-929-0131
E-mail: sasia@cabi.org 