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Baseline Study on the Regulatory and Political Frame of the Seed Sector in India

Publication Date: July 2018

Author(s): Dr. Malavika Dadlani (Senior Indian Seed Sector Expert); Dr. Hermann Freudenstein (Head of Section National and International Variety and Seed Affairs of German Federal Plant Variety Office (Bundessortenamt); Dr. Keshavulu Kunusoth (Director of the Telangana State Seed & Organic Certification Authority); Ekkehard Schroeder (German Project Team Leader of the Indo-German project); Dr. Sowmini Sunkara (National Coordinator of the Indo-German project).

Number of pages: 92

Short description: This baseline study was elaborated in the year 2017 in the frame of the ongoing project “Indo-German Cooperation on Seed Sector Development”. The study focuses on the description of the regulativepolitical framework of the Indian seed sector and related development trends.

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Report of Study Visit on EU Seed Certification System

Publication Date: July 2018

Author(s):Dr. Keshavulu Kunusoth (Director of the Telangana State Seed & Organic Certification Authority); Ekkehard Schroeder (German Project Team Leader of the Indo-German project); Dr. Sowmini Sunkara (National Coordinator of the Indo-German project); Pradeep Korishettar (Seed Certification Officer, Telangana State Seed & Organic Certification Authority).

Number of pages: 26

Short description: The study visit intended to identify the gaps existing in Indian seed industry with respect to seed legislation/regulations and international seed trade. The exposures and experiences extracted out of the visit are presented in the form of recommendations, which would help to set up an ideal seed system in the country with internationally harmonized procedures, standards and benchmarks for seed quality regulation and also improves the access to quality seed for the farming community besides accelerating seed exports from the country.

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Measures for Strenghting of the Formal Seed Production and Supply Chain of Agricultural Crops in Telangana State, India

Publication Date: July 2018

Author(s): This analysis report was elaborated in the year 2017 by Dr. Raghu Chaliganti.

Number of pages: 46

Short description: This analysis is based on the review of several documents and reports about seed sector in India and in particular in the State of Telangana, interviews with seed sector experts in Telangana and primary data collection of different stakeholders of the seed sector in Hyderabad and different districts of Telangana. The survey for data collection in Telangana was done in spring 2017 in particular by Dr. Sowmini Sunkara, the national coordinator of the bilateral project.

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