This document summarizes key aspects of seed systems and markets in Asia and identifies issues and potential solutions. It outlines the typical components of national seed system architectures, including policy regimes, research systems, production, regulation, and marketing. It then discusses key issues like limited strategic decision making, underinvestment in research, inequitable access to public research, cumbersome regulations, and barriers to trade. Finally, it proposes some solutions such as improving tools for policy decisions, enhancing research investment and reform, rationalizing regulations, and reallocating public and private roles in production.