Four Brothers Seeds

To be the leader in developing a prosperous farming community, with widespread role of Four Brothers Seeds Corporation as provider of innovative and genetically modified high-value  commercial seeds with hi-tech services to our farmer-clients and stakeholders through inventive research & development, modern standards of quality control and highly skilled human resource.

Today Four Brothers Group stands on its two strong pillars;

• Four Brothers Telecom Division
• Four Brothers Agro Division

Four Brothers Agro Division comprises of seven Agro-based market leader companies dealing in Agrochemicals, Micro & Macro Fertilizers, High Efficiency Irrigation System and Seeds business.

Four Brothers Seeds Corporation Pakistan is a producer & importer of high-quality seed brands of our major field crops like Cotton, Rice, Corn, Wheat, Pearl millets and Oilseeds (Sunflower and Canola) as well as small-acre crops like Vegetables, Ornamentals & Fodders.

Producer of seeds since 2002, Four Brothers Seeds Corporation offers a broad range of quality products as unique Cotton Bt. seeds, Hybrids and open pollinated varieties in Rice, Corn, Sunflower, Pearl millets, Fodders and Vegetables. Our seed products are thoroughly tested at a network of professional contract growers and on the Four Brother’s owned production and research farms. Four Brothers Seed Corporation Pakistan is led by Group Chairman Engineer Jawed Salim Qureshi & Dr. Khalid Hameed CEO Four Brothers Group.

The chairman Eng. Jawed Salim Qureshi is a trend setter icon in country’s agriculture. His visionary approach for betterment of farming community is continuously adding innovative and modern concepts in agricultural industry.

Four Brothers Seeds is one of the leading companies and is extensively involved in seed research and development programs. The R&D team is headed by Dr. Zahoor Ahmad an internationally renowned personality in seed
research & development. The breeding section is manned by a high qualified, experienced and motivated team of 25 scientists working on cotton, rice, maize and vegetables. The core activities of this team includes,

• Plant Breeding Research
• Hybrid Seeds Development
• Genetically Modified Crops Development
• Seed Production
• Seed Processing
• Quality Assuranc
  

The company operates its seed research at six experimental centers; 1st in the Northern-east part of Pakistan in Lahore for Rice research, 2nd at Faisalabad for Corn, Vegetables and Wheat research, 3rd in Sahiwal for Maize & other crops research, 4th “Four Brothers Cotton & Vegetables Seeds Research Farm” at Multan, 5th in Rahim Yar Khan for Sugarcane research and 6th in west at Shikarpur for Rice research covering all climatic zones of Pakistan.

At these six stations, the company conducts field experiments, control tests, the production of breeder seeds, the introduction of heritage seeds, and in-house breeding. The stations have all the facilities, and are fully geared with advance equipments necessary for tillage, irrigation control, and seed laboratory work.

In addition to in-house research, Four Brothers Seeds has close R&D collaboration & cooperation with Governament institute like NARC, PARC, CCRI, CRI, RRI and NIAB as well as with Faculty of  Agriculture, University of Sargodha having MOUs for research and development. Along that company is also member of Asia & Pacific Seed Association and Seed Association of  Pakistan.

The chief scientist Ch. Mohammad Hanif head of cotton breeding department is running the most leading and advance program in developing new cotton varieties. CLCV is hot issue of cotton and he has successfully developed virus resistant Bt. cotton varieties. The main leading characteristics of these varieties are;

• Resistant to CLCV
• High Yielding
• Early Maturing
• Excellent GOT
• Best Fiber Strength
• Good Staple Length
• Heat Tolerance

Four brothers Seed Corporation strongly believes to serve our farmer community with variety of products, being developed on complete understanding of their needs.

We feel honor to be the first organization in Pakistan in private sector that has offered Bt cotton, with  competitive edge of high tolerance to CLCV, to its valuable customers. Our competent breeders are on to develop advanced products in transgenic cotton.

We are working on long grain fine rice and coarse hybrid rice. It is our focused crop. The major segment of varieties is early maturity, medium maturity and medium late maturity. Both types of products are high yielding in comparison to conventional varieties. We are in process of  continuous research in breeding and trait development to develop rice varieties of better grain quality and more resistant to pest and diseases.

- Wheat

Wheat is also another focused crop. We are specially working on yield enhancement of this crop with the collaboration of foreign companies.

Currently we are working on Sunflower hybrids for cultivation under different growing conditions especially in drought condition. Our main efforts are on to offer high grain and oil yield and improved tolerance to viral diseases.

- Pearl Millets

New products are being introduced in sorghum with superior grain quality and yield.

SSG and fodder maize are our focus areas in fodder crops. We are continuously adding values to these crops, with collaboration of foreign companies in our research program, for diseases resistance and better fodder yield.

In vegetables we are working in open field and greenhouse products. A complete range of summer and winter vegetables is under          pre-commercial testing. The competitive edge of these products is having better color and good perishability. The main  products are;

Open Field Vegetables

• Egg Plant
• Hybrid Okra
• Hot Peppers
• Tomatoes
• Musk Melon
• Water Melon
• Bitter Gourd
• Bottle Gourd
• Onior
• Caulidflower
• Cabbage
• Cucumbers
• Sweet Peppers
• Radish
• Carrot
• Turnips

• Musk Melon
• Tomatoes
• Sweet Pepper
• Bitter Gourd
• Cucumbers
• Bottel Gourd

The processing and logistics center also includes a seed-quality laboratory and a warehouse with optimal storage conditions.

Committed to Seed Quality

Four Brothers Seeds Corporation carefully selects its growers and continuously monitors their growing operations. The  quality control laboratories carry out sampling and tests of physical purity, genetic purity, germination, vigor and moisture contents in accordance with the international seed testing rules published by international seed testing associations.

Customer, Sales & Marketing

Sales & Marketing

The sales and marketing  development team is led by  Business  Manager Mr. Aadil Hassan having post graduation in Agriculture &   Business Administration with an excellent sales career. This 65 member’s team includes Product Managers, Sales Managers and Sales and development representatives at gross route level. The key strength of this team is pre to post sales customer services.

Markets and Customers

Four Brothers Seeds Corporation products are suitable for all seed market segments. All our seed products are highly demanded by growers due to their excellent quality of seeds. Four Brothers sells its seed products to all types of growers all over the Pakistan. In addition, a number of leading hobbyist and  seed-packet brands use Four Brothers seeds for their high quality and special characteristics.

Tarzan Model Farm is a new project of Four Borthers Group for its farmer community. It is a perfect model of complete Agrobusiness and community welfare at one place. The main features of this projects are provision of all agricultural inputs like Farm Machinery, Agro Chemicals, Micro and Macro Fertilizers, High Efficiency Irrigation System, Seeds Business, Financing Facility and  on-farm services including modern crop production and protection technology. The most prominent feature of Tarzan Model Farm is buy back of farmer produce on best market price at his door step.

Four Brothers Seeds Corporation sells seeds at different parallel channels like franchise network “Tarzan Markaz”; seed companies, wholesalers, dealers and distributors.