New Delhi: To ensure quality and traceability while curbing spurious sales, the government is likely to introduce the Seed Bill in parliament in the forthcoming budget session, an agriculture ministry official said on Sunday.
“We have received over 9,500 inputs or comments on the draft seed bill and we are analysing these comments. The target is to introduce it in the forthcoming season of parliament,” Devesh Chaturvedi, secretary ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare, told FE.
The draft Bill, 2025 was put for public consultation till December 11, 2025.
The proposed legislation unveiled in November, last year was aimed at incentivising investment in research and development (R&D) by ‘genuine’ players while bringing in much-needed regulation in the sector, major seed associations have stated.
THE NEW LEGISLATION WILL REPLACE DECADES OLD SEED ACT, 1966 AND THE SEED (CONTROL) ORDER, 1983. EARLIER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO INTRODUCE CHANGES IN THE EXISTING PROVISION OF LEGISLATION.
“Our key focus is that farmers get quality and high yielding seed at remunerative prices, we will be bringing the proposed legislation in the parliament soon,” agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in a briefing on Sunday.
