The Centre organised a training course on “Quality Improvement: Seed Quality and Preparation” at the Kazakh Research Institute for Cotton Growing on 28-30 September 2011. The Course was provided by Mr. Koray Şimşek, an expert from the Nazilli Cotton Research Institute of Turkey, and was attended by 15 staff members of the Kazakh Research Institute for Cotton Growing.

The training course on “Quality Improvement: Seed Quality and Preparation” mainly covered the following subjects:

• Cotton Harvest
• Cotton Seed Storage
• Seed Quality
• Ginning
• Seed Damage During Ginning
• Seed Quality Testing