Guard Agricultural Research & Services (Pvt) Ltd., is a sister company of Guard Group with department for Research & Development, Seed Division, Crop Agronomy, Machinery & Plant, Food and Marketing & Export. The prime objective of the organization is to conduct research on the development of Basmati rice varieties and rice production technology. The company provides technical services and pure seed of various rice varieties to the rice growers’ community of Pakistan. The company is also dealing with superb quality rice to more than 40 countries and Guard brand is one of the leading rice brand of Pakistan. The company is pioneer in the introduction of Super Basmati rice to the domestic and international markets and in hybrid rice research, production and commercialization in Pakistan through Yuan Longping China, and inventor of hybrid technology.