Online Seed Store in India 4 OCT 17

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Online Seed Store in India
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Description

• seed is the basic and most critical input for
  sustainable agriculture.  The response of all
  other inputs depends on quality of seeds to a
  large extent.  It is estimated that the direct
  contribution of quality seed alone to the total
  production is about 15 20 depending upon the
  crop and it can be further raised up to 45 with
  efficient management of other inputs. The
  developments in the seed industry in India,
  particularly in the last 30 years, are very
  significant. A major re-structuring of the seed
  industry by Government of India through the
  National Seed Project 
• The Indian seed programme largely adheres to the
  limited generations system for seed
  multiplication in a phased manner.  The system
  recognizes three generations namely breeder,
  foundation and certified seeds and provides
  adequate safeguards for quality assurance in the
  seed multiplication chain to maintain the purity
  of the variety as it flows from the breeder to
  the farmer.

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 Breeder Seed

• diction is the mandate of the Indian Council of
  Agricultural Research (ICAR) and is being
  undertaken with the help of
•  I)ICAR Research Institutions, National Research
  Centres and All India Coordinated Research
  Project of different crops
• ii)State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) with 14
  centres established in different States
• iii)Sponsored breeders recognized by selected
  State Seed Corporations, and
• Iv)Non-Governmental Organizations.
• ICAR also promotes sponsored breeder seed
  production programme through the National Seeds
  Corporation (NSC) / State Farms Corporation of
  India (SFCI), State Seeds Corporation (SSCs),
  Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) etc.
•  There has been a steady increase in the
  production of breeder seed over the years.

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 Certified Seed

•  Foundation seed is the progeny of breeder seed
  and is required to be produced from breeder seed
  or from foundation seed which can be clearly
  traced to breeder seed.  The responsibility for
  production of foundation seed has been entrusted
  to the NSC, SFCI, State Seeds Corporation, State
  Departments of Agriculture and private seed
  producers, who have the necessary infrastructure
  facilities.  Foundation seed is required to meet
  the standards of seed certification prescribed in
  the Indian Minimum Seeds Certification Standards,
  both at the field and laboratory testing.
•  Certified seed is the progeny of foundation seed
  and must meet the standards of seed certification
  prescribed in the Indian Minimum Seeds
  Certification Standards, 1988.  In case of self
  pollinated crops, certified seeds can also be
  produced from certified seeds provided it does
  not go beyond three generations from foundation
  seed stage-I.

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