He addressed the inaugural session of Horticulture e Conference organized by Institute of Horticulture Sciences UAF and Pakistan Society of Horticulture Sciences at Video Conference Room. He also showed his concern that the country was importing the vegetable seed upto 90 percent, putting a burden on the national economy. He added that the country can save worth billions of rupees by producing the quality seed. He said that we are losing our agriculture produces upto 40 percent in the post harvest losses whereas the country per acre production was far less than the developed world. He added that we have to promote and adopt the latest agricultural practices to ensure the food security and to compete with the rest of the world. Dean Faculty of Agriculture Prof Dr Javed Akhtar said that the agriculture sector was coping with the different challenges including low productivity, value addition, shrinking water availability, climate changes, post-harvest losses and others. He added that combined efforts on the part of the researchers, agriculture experts, policy makers, farming community and others stakeholders were need of the hour for flourishing the sector. Director Institute of Horticulture Sciences Prof Aman Ullah Malik said that the country can save billions of the rupees by overcoming the post harvest losses. He said that Institute is impart horticultural education and problem oriented operational as well as basic research for the benefit of the farmers and horticultural development in the country. He said that they ewer actively working on the provision of appropriate cost effective technology packages for production, handling, processing and storage of Horticultural produce. Pakistan Society of Horticulture Sciences President Dr CM Ayub said that they were used to such moot, seminars that enable farming community, experts and others to sit together for addressing the problems of the farming community. He said that the country was blessed with tremendous resources but we are unable to tap the potential due to traditional way of farming.. Dr Raheel Anwar and other notables also spoke at the inaugural session.