Seed Related Issues
- Seed is a critical and basic input for attaining higher crop yields and sustained growth in agricultural production. Distribution of assured quality seed is as critical as the production of such seeds.
- Unfortunately, good quality seeds are out of reach of the majority of farmers, especially small and marginal farmers mainly because of exorbitant prices of better seeds.
- There is no regulation on seed pricing by government and has inadvertently shifted into the hands of private corporations in India. Seed corporations have replaced native and traditional seed varieties with hybrid and genetically modified seeds which they sell at much higher costs.
- Farmers are ....
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