MCIA President and CEO Fawad Shah recently accepted AOSCA’s Excellence in Innovation Award on behalf of Minnesota Crop Improvement Association. In part, the award recognized MCIA’s education, outreach, and training efforts to seed industry colleagues internationally.
In a follow-up article, published in Seed World on October 20, 2023, Fawad Shah explains how international outreach benefits MCIA as the seed market globalizes. More broadly, he asserts that a strategy of service diversification can improve the financial stability of state seed certification agencies as demand for their traditional services declines.
Read the full article here: https://www.seedworld.com/why-would-a-state-level-seed-certification-agency-invest-efforts-outside-their-state-and-outside-of-seed-certification/.