Organizing Committee Member

Muhammad Usman

Muhammad Usman

Former Director


Agricultural Research System


Pakistan


Biography

Mr. Muhammad Usman, Former Director General of Agricultural Research System, Govt. of Pakistan who retired from service after a spotless career of about 32 years (from Jan 4, 1977 to Feb 2, 2009) with senior level experience work on the research and development of integrated agricultural industries like livestock and dairy development, aquaculture and fishery, apiculture and poultry, crops, seed and bioenergy on a sustainable way.

Research Area

Basically, Mr. Usman is an Agricultural scientist, specialized himself on the improvement and advance breeding methodology of food and feed legumes from (ICARDA) from March – June 1990 at Aleppo-Syria, release several varieties and has more than 60 publications.  During the service, Mr. Usman was responsible for Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Planning of project, financial activities and the research work conducted in Pakistan as per training obtained from the University of Queensland-Australia during February 1993.