A dynamic commercial and marketing company has been looked out since long for transferring the knowledge and technical know how, available with National Agricultural Research System (NARS) in general and PARC in particular to the ultimate end users viz. agro-industries and farmers. To fill the gap, PARC on the directive of Government of Pakistan has established an Innovative Product Marketing Company viz. PARC Agrotech Company (Pvt) Limited - PATCO with its head office at Islamabad. The company got incorporated with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistanunder the Companies Ordinance, 1984 (XLVII of 1984) on 11th April, 2008. The company is limited by shares.
The creation of an agribusiness company is imperative to address the future challenges of agro-technological development and shifting to commercial science based agriculture. The company will also provide a platform to all the players, both from the public and private sector, to interact, invest and commercialize innovations incubated within a PARC research park, for public consumption.