Some point on History of seed industry in India.

1. AN
PRESENTATION
ON
Topic :- History of seed industry in India
CourseTitle :- Seed production of vegetable,
Tuber and Spices Crops
Course No. :- HPB – 5321
Credit Hours :- 3 ( 2+1 )
SUBMITTED BY :-
Aayush kumar
ID No. :- 20202119
Class :- B.Sc. Horti ( Hons. )
3rd year, 2nd sem.
College of Horticulture Dhamtari (C.G.)
MGUVV

2. CONTENT
 Breakthroughs in seed industry.
 History of seed industry in India.
1. Pre – Independence
2. Post – Independence
 Reference.

3. Breakthroughs in seed industry
 1867 — 1st Sees Testing Laboratory (STL) established by
Fredrick Nobbe in Germany .
 1871 — STL established by Muller in Denmark.
 1876 — A hand book on seed testing was published.
 1885 — Swedish Seed Association was established.
 1908 — Associationof Official Seed Analyst (AOSA) was established.
 1919 — International Crop ImprovementAssociation(ICIA) was
established.
 1924 — International Seed Testing Association(ISTA) was
established.
Headquarters
1. AOSA – Washington DC
2. ICIA (AOSCA) – Moline, Illinois, US
3. ISTA - Zurich,Switzerland.

4. History of seed industry in India
History and development of seed industry in
India can be divided into :–
1. Pre –
Independence
development
2. Post –
Independence
development
History

5. • 1940 - ICAR committee made.
• 1944 – Famine Enquiry Committee.
• 1944 – Food Grain Policy Committee.
• 1945 – Private seed companies established in Quetta and Kashmir
valley.
• 1946 – All India Seed Growers, Merchants and Nurserymen’s
Association.
Pre – Independence Period

6. Post – Independence Period
This period includes all policies and legislations which is passed to
improvise the seed industry in India.
 1948-49 – Dr. S. Radha Krishnan recommend the formation of
Agricultural Universities and he called them Rural
Universities.
 1949 – Seed production programme was started at Central Vegetable
Breeding Station, Katrain, Kullu Valley by Govt. Of India.
- Central Potato ResearchInstitute was established at Shimla .
 1951 - First Five Year Plan started with an aim to multiply and
distribute seeds.
1st. FYP(1951-56)
• 1952 – Grow More Food Enquiry Committee.
• 1955 - CentralVegetable Breeding Station,was transferred to the
IndianAgricultural Research Institute,New Delhi and renamed as
IARI, Regional Station.

7. 2nd FYP(1956-61)
• 1957-1st AICRP on maize was started with Rockfellar foundation.
• 1958 -1st vegetable seed testing station was established.
• 1960 - AICRP on Sorghum & Bajra.
• 1961 – 1st Hybrid maize was developed.
• 1961 - 1st STL was started in India
3rd FYP (1961-66)
• 1961 – 1st SeedTesting Laboratory was established at IARI New
Delhi
• 1963 - National Seed Corporation (NSC) was established.
• 1964 -1st Hybrid of sorghum was developed.
• 1965 – 1st Hybrid of bajra was developed
• 1965 - Indo-American Hybrid seeds was established.
• 1966 - HighYieldingVariety Program (HYVP)
Annual plan (1966-69)
• 1966 - Seed Act (Dec 29th 1966 enacted in oct 2nd 1969)
• 1968 - Seed Rules.
• 1968 - Seed ReviewTeam.
• 1969 - ICIA changed into AOSCA (Association of Seed Certifying
Agency)

8. 4th FYP ( 1969 – 74 )
• 1969 -Tarai Development program (Assistance byWorld Bank).
• 1970 - Minikit program (with Paddy)
• 1970 -1st Seed Certification Agency(SCA) was established in
Maharashtra.
• 1971 - Indian Society of SeedTechnologists (ISST).
• 1972 - SeedAmendmentAct (9th Sept).
• 1972 - Central Seed Certification Board (CSCB)
ISST publishes - Journal of Seed Research and News Letter SeedTech.News
5th FYP(1974-79)
• 1976 - National Seed Project (NSP) in 2 phases –
• 1st phase (1975-76) - State Seed Corporation was established in Punjab,
Haryana,Maharashtra & AndhraPradesh.
• 2nd phase (1981) - SSC in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar &
Orissa.
• 1974 - Seed Certification Agency was established in Karnataka.

9. 6th FYP(1980-85)
• 1983 - Enactment of Seed Control Order( Seed included under
Essential CommodityAct -1955).
• 1985 - Y.S.Parmer University of horticulture and forestry was started at
solan .
7th FYP (1985-90)
• 3rd phase of NSP - SSC in other 4 states were established.
• 1986 – Elevation of status of AICVIP, to the level of Project Directorate of
Vegetable Research (PDVR).
• 1988 - New Seed Policy.
• 1989 - There was 22.27% increase in vegetable production in India
8th FYP (1992-97) and 9th FYP(1997-2002)
• 1992 - De-linking of PDVR from IARI and shifted toVaranasi (UP.)
• 2000 - Seed Bank Scheme & Seed Crop Insurance Scheme.
• 2001 - Protection of Plant Variety and Farmer Right Act (PPVFR Act)
• 2002 - National Seed Policy

10. 10th FYP (2002-07)
• 2003 - National Seed Board.
• 2003 - Seed QuarantineOrder.
• 2004 - Seed Bill.
• 2004 - Integrated Scheme of Oilseeds, Pulses, Maize and
Oilpalm (ISOPOM).
• 2005 - National Seed Research andTraining Centre (NSRTC)
atVaranasi.
• 2005 - PPVFRAuthority at New Delhi.
• 2005 - National Seed Plan.
• 2005-06 - National Horticulture Mission a centrally
sponsored scheme was started by Governmentof India.
• 2007 - Andhra Pradesh Horticultural University was
started at West Godavari .
• 2008 - University of Horticultural Sciences was started at Bagalkot
to promote horticultural studied .

11. Source -
YouTube channel – “Agriculture & GK”

12. ❑ Reference :-
➢ Dr. Amitava Dutta,2019, A TEXTBOOK ON PRINCIPALES
OF SEED TECHNOLOGY, KALYANI PUBLISHERS, Page no.-
178-180.
➢ https://www.agrimoon.com/wp- content/uploads/Seed-Production-
of- Vegetable.pdf , page no.- 09 -13
➢ https://youtu.be/TKw92w2xzus
 YouTube channel name – Agriculture & Gk
➢ http://www.slideshare.net/NSStudents/rhoda?from_m_app=android