Professor Rajeev Varshney speaks with Farm Weekly's Belinda Morrissy at the International Wheat Conference.
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00:00It has been a very productive congress and here Murdoch University in collaboration with
00:05GRDC in the wheat initiative hosted the third international wheat congress.
00:10This congress brought more than 930 people from 52 different countries and during this
00:16last few days we have been discussing different issues about the wheat production, quality,
00:22markets and now today is the last day and we are showing that hosted and wheat varieties
00:27to all these our colleagues who are coming from the different countries that what is
00:31our quality, what is our productivity, so we are very excited.
00:34It's always very challenging to bring big congresses in Perth, even many times people
00:39from the eastern states they do not come here and many people they were surprised, oh in
00:44Perth you are able to bring 937 people, so this is very exciting, so we are very happy
00:49that we brought big contingent of the wheat researchers and they are the brilliant minds
00:53from all over the world.
00:54And most of the people that have come are they breeders, are they researchers?
00:57So we got that all kind of people, so basically majority of them I will say 80% researchers
01:02which are coming from the different disciplines, pathologists, breeding, seed system, agronomist
01:08etc.
01:09But we got some policy makers and also that administrators, the good thing is in this
01:14congress unlike many other congresses people only from North America or Australia you know
01:19what we did we tried to be very inclusive brought the people from all different continents,
01:24so we are having if you can see this participant people coming from different African countries,
01:27Asian countries all these things, so we really got that big diverse group of the people who
01:33are working on this aspect.