The story so far: The Union Agriculture Ministry released the draft Seeds Bill on November 12, and has invited public comments on it till December 11. The Seeds Bill, seen as a regulatory step to ensure quality of seeds sold and distributed to farmers, promotes “ease of doing business” and reduces compliance burden, while maintaining strong provisions to penalise serious violations, as per the government. The government has been open about its intention to amend the Seeds Act of 1966 and the Seeds (Control) Order of 1983.

According to the Union Agriculture Ministry, in 2023-24, the country had an overall requirement of 462.31 lakh quintals of seeds for various crops with availability being 508.60 lakh quintals, which then led to a surplus of 46.29 lakh quintals of seeds.

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