The regional station of IARI located in the RAU
campus is also involved in seed production of Open
Pollinated Varieties (OPVs) of maize at its own farm.
The station is not involved in maize seed production
at farmers’ field. Though under the farmer’s
participatory seed production program, it has the
provision to distribute the parent seed to the farmers
on limited scale and purchase back the seed after
multiplication at a price 25 per cent more than the price
paid by NSC. The station also produces seed of OPVs
on its own farm. The production cost (operational) at
its own farm was estimated at ` 8.89/kg. It markets
seed directly to the farmers at ` 32/kg. The station has
a lean margin of around ` 9.00/kg after meeting all the
cost of OPVs seed production.