Bonyan Kesht

Bonyan Kesht Company was founded in 1997 as a research center for conducting agricultural genetic studies on oil seeds. The company imported sunflower and colza sample seeds from several renowned international companies and institutes and started to conduct basic studies on them as of 1999. So, it paved the way for choosing the appropriate hybrids for the climate of Iran and, for the first time in Iran, foreign sunflower hybrid seeds were produced in a large scale. By importing the parent seeds of HYSUN33, HYSUN36, HYSUN25 from Pacific Seeds Company in Australia, the first Iranian hybrid seeds were produced in large quantities by Bonyan Kesht (under the license of the Australian company) in 2003 and they were distributed among Iranian farmers by the competent authorities. Hybrid seeds have some advantages, such as: • Higher production capacity (more than 1 Ton in irrigated cultivation and 600 Kg. in rain-fed cultivation) • Homogenous growth of plants allows for simultaneous harvesting • Resistance against seed diseases