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I am Shahid Sheikh from Pakistan, freelance consultant on standardization in agriculture sector to add more value in international trade. I started my carrier from a PL 480 project of US on "Sterile Male Technique for the control of fruit flies in Pakistan" later shifted my services to R&D activities on chemical pesticides up to retirement.

I am happy to join this discussion as getting more and latest information on Impact of agriculture research. Discussions on different ongoing subjects on are very interesting and informative for all stakeholders. 

Comments on communicating from Shams F. El-Shamy (Message 39) and from Anna Augustyn ( Message 47 ) is very well discussed. In my opinion about the methodologies, there is lack of communication about the impact of research findings to all stakeholders except to donors and policy makers, I cannot say about other countries but Pakistan is the one country where bureaucracy and its delaying tactics create problems as they do not take an early action.  

Now the recent introduction of technologies in the communication field must be utilized for the cause of consumers or the farmers in this case. This is the era of competition and time is running fast, if we did not act in fast-moving world and problems being faced due to climate change which is effecting different climatic zones and different sectors of society.

Agriculture is very dependent on nature and environmental factors. Research in agriculture is a very complicated and time consuming activity either it is qualitative or quantitative research. Agriculture research finding in laboratories after a reasonable period must be demonstrated at the farmer's field either at small level or medium level, impact of research would be proved in the field immediately. 

In my opinion, our research organization do not have public relation wings to communicate the activities and findings of  positive results of research with all stakeholders as well as agriculture extension staff who have direct contacts with farmers. There is a need to establish public relation wings in each research organization and also allocate sufficient funds for this purpose. I think, funding is the problem in developing and under developed countries, so whenever a research grant is approved, and research findings are positive after a certain period of time, the donor should approve additional funds for demonstrating the results of research findings. I am hopeful that this point will be considered positively by donors and stakeholders.

Shahid H. Sheikh
AGROSOL PAKISTAN
Agriculture Consultant 
Karachi 
Pakistan
Tel: Mobile: 0092-300 -82 33 284 
Tel / Fax: ( 0092-213 ) 461 3042
Skype ID: ShahidSheikh15
 e-mail: agrosol (at) ymail.com

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