Iqrar Ahmad Khan

Who is Iqrar Ahmad Khan?

Iqrar Ahmad Khan is a Pakistani agricultural scientist and a professor of Horticulture at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside where he was placed on the Honour Rolls. He has supervised 84 M.Sc and Ph.D. students from 6 countries, established a Center of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology and secured numerous research and development projects. Khan has released a potato variety, pioneered the research on breeding seedless Kinnow and discovered two new botanical varieties of wheat. He was author of STED funded Citrus Nursery Project launched at UAF. He was instrumental in developing international/regional mango research program to combat the sudden death of mango. In a 2007 paper on the causal organism of mango death, his team illustrated new information which must count as a discovery. MINFAL has notified Khan as National Mango Coordinator.

He is selected t be decorated with 'Sitara-e-Imtiaz' by President of Pakistan for his services in the field of Agricultural sciences on occasion of Pakistan Day 23 March 2011.