PROJECT NAME

SINO-PAK AGRICULTURAL BREEDING INNOVATIONS PROJECT FOR RAPID YIELD ENHANCEMENT

PROJECT DIRECTOR NAME

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LOCATION

National InstituteforGenomics and Advanced Biotechnology, National AgriculturalResearch Centre, Islamabad

SPONSORING AGENCY

Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Islamabad

EXECUTING AGENCY

Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Islamabad

ORIGINAL COST

433.936 Million

SCOPE

  • Sharing of advanced germplasm by Chinese with Pakistan.
  • Evaluation, genomic selection and dissemination of acquired material through national coordination system.
  • Development of high yielding, biotic and abiotic stress tolerant varieties in rapid time.
  • Implication of new breeding and molecular tools for rapid yield enhancement.
  • Disease resistant, high yielding milk and meat producing elite breeds of livestock.

  • Acquisition of 700 advanced lines of rice from China, multiplication and selection at 09 locations in Pakistan.
  • Acquisition of 600 advanced lines of wheat from China, UK and Pakistan.
  • Acquisition of 620 grams fuzz of sugarcane from China.
  • Collection of 40 samples of elite breeds of goat and sheep.

  • High yielding varieties.
  • It will have positive impact on employment generation.
  • Directly Employment 15 Nos.
  • Indirectly 100 Nos plus.

PROJECT DETAILS

Date of approval with Forum
Original date Revised Date, if any All subsequent Revisions if any
24-02-2020 N/A N/A
Financial Arrangement Federal PSDP
Donor (if any)along with a share of foreign aid in the cost N/A
Actual Date of Commencement 01.07.20
Completion Date (as per PC-I) 30.06.24
Likely Completion Date 30.06.24
Reason of Time and Cost Overrun N/A
Specific decision/ recommendation made during previous quarterly reviews of PSDP 2019-20 NIL
PMES system updated on (please specify date) 01.01.2021
Financial progress
a) Expenditure up to June 2020 NA
b) %age Financial progress to-Date 2.24%
Physical completion (in %age terms) 35%
Allocation 2020-21 Rupee Foreign loan(if any)
150 million Nil
Releases 2020-21 Rupee Foreign Loan(if any)
74.629 million Nil
Expenditure/Utilization 2020-21 (July-Sept 2020) Rupee Foreign loan(if any)
9.724 million Nil
Bottlenecks/Issues impeding progress on the project (if any)
  • Total allocation of the Sino-Pak project in the Current FY is Rs. 150.000 million and 1st Quarter release is Rs. 29.629 million.
  • A mega tender case amounting to Rs. 231.375 million is in progress for this project. The funds required for maturation of this tender exceeds the total allocation of Sino-Pak project for the current FY 2020-21.
  • It is due to a single costly item of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) machine which has to be purchased in the current financial year 2020-21. The financial bid has unveiled the quoted cost of Rs. 187.200 million for this NGS machine but funds available for this machine.
  • The other Research Equipment & Machinery in the current year are only Rs. 93.95 million. Hence, additional funds of Rs. 106.450 million are inevitable to purchase this equipment in FY 2020-21.
  • In view of above circumstances, it is requested that besides 2nd, 3rd & 4th quarter combined release of Rs. 123.040 million and the additional funds of Rs. 106.450 million may kindly be allocated for purchase of Research Equipment & Machinery please.
Latest implementation status of the decision/recommendation NIL