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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:57:33 +0100
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I am Sahar Al-bayatti, a livestock geneticist working for the Ministry of Agriculture in Iraq, the national coordinator (NC) for animal genetic resources (AnGR) and a member of the biosafety committee working on GMO legislation for the Ministry of Environment.

First, I would like to thank the organizers of this important e-conference. I have been following the very useful discussions. It is clear from ongoing discussions that genomics has an important role in agriculture and agro-industry sectors. But this as Rajeev Varshney said (Message 28) is happening in either developed countries or in private sectors. I think it is early to talk about the impacts of the genomics and other omics in the field of agriculture and agro-industry sectors in developing countries or at least in my country Iraq. We have only a few academic researches in this field in the universities with little applications on the ground. So we can’t tell about its impact. There is a big gap between the developed and developing countries in this field. However, and talking about the future, I think it will have a great impacts especially in gene banking and genetic diversity studies.

I agree with Takele Taye Desta (Message 12) who said Omics require the state of art lab and computing facilities, which do not exist in most developing countries, also there is a shortage in knowledge in this field and a lack of specialized human resources. And I strongly agree with Richard Osei-Amponsah (Message 22) who said in the developing world this technology is still new.
 
I am here to emphasise on the suggestions made by Victor Okoro (Message 26), Raul Castillo (Message 41)and Sanjeev Raikar (Message 42) especially in the need for collaborative culture between developing countries researchers and developed countries (who have the technologies and infrastructure for such research) through a multinational project for genomic studies and applications. 

Sahar Al-Bayatti
NC, for the management of AnGR
AGRU-SCARS-MOA
Baghdad, 
Iraq
Skype:saharalbayatti
Mobil:( 00964) 7708899649
Mail address: Al-Rasheed Post Office in Al-Nahda sq.
Mail Box: 5020
e-mail: sahar_albayatti (at) yahoo.com

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