Agricultural research needs assessment is a continuous process in view of the fast changing socio-economic and policy scenarios and emergence of many other stakeholders, not involved earlier. Whereas many agricultural problems are country specific, there are some problems which are common to all the countries in the region (e.g. river water salinity, climate change etc.)
and could be best tackled by joint actions of the governments in CAC. Handling scalar issues of the dimensions encompassing the whole region requires funding support from the international community and active technical backstopping from the CG centers and other advanced institutions.