The work has begun to digit the “distribution value chain” that is probably completed before Kharif 2026. | Photo credit: KK Mustafah
Up to 24 states are aboard the SATHI portal of the Indian government, as part of the digitalization process of the seed production chain. The chain begins from the breeder to the foundation and the foundation to the seeds certified under the supervision of state seed certification agencies (SSCA). The work has begun to digit the “distribution value chain” that is probably completed before Kharif 2026.
“With one part it is almost complete, the following approach is to capture the distribution network, so that any farmer scanning the QR code in the seed package will be able to know the details about the seeds it intends to buy or buy,” said Ajeet Kumar Sahu, a joint secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Union.
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Digitization the entire Seed retail chain – from seed producing agency/ Farmer, distributors, dealers, retailers unnquic Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Odisha, Jammu & Cashmira and Uttarakhand also joined in the last season of Rabi.
With luck, Bihar, Haryana, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh will join during the Kharif season, while the center has the hope of bringing all the states before Kharif 2026.
The SSCA of Assam, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Western Bengal, Rajasthan, Odisha, Jammu, Kashmir and Uttarakhand had joined the sathi (seed authentication, traceability and Hotel Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesha also joined. Rabi 2024-25 Season, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Potucherry, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Tamil Nadu also joined.
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Any seed package, when certified by a SSCA, will show the details of the production system, including where it was cultivated and for whom, the authorities said. However, it will take time, since there is a time or 3 years before a variety of seeds reaches the end of the farmers after the government approves it.
“From the nucleus seed, developed by scientists, to broader seeds and then to base seeds and then certified seeds, which are sold or distributed to farmers for commercial cultivation, usually takes a capital in the production cap, which is being obtained. Through the QR code code when the farmers obtain a process of off off and all those that are sold in the market. variations are released.
Although the exchange of information is currently optional, the Government has plans to make all interested parties to all interested parties complete the data on the Sathi portal once the seed law is modified, for which the consultation process has begun. At the Kharif 2025 conference last week, the Minister of Agriculture, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, had announced that the center would make amendments in the Seeds Law, 1966, to stop the sales of spurious seeds and protect the interest of farmers. Looking for comments from the states, they were informed about a bill that the center prepared now.
Posted on May 12, 2025
