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on the basis of seed standards as prescribe by the National Seed
Council (NSC) are processed, packed and labeled before marketing
the quantity of certified seed of major crops. The seed made available
to the farmers for the last two years, as given in Table-1. Wheat: Procurement and distribution of wheat seeds, reveal that wheat seed procurement was 14.03%, 14.66% and 25.15% respectively during 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05. Marginal profit in wheat seed marketing is very low and restriction on seed movement causes a big discouragement to private seed industry. Seed affairs should be addressed through Seed Act 1976, and not by another legislative measures. Cotton: Seed procurement during the year 2002 and 2003 was though satisfactory i.e. 75.21% and 73.78% respectively in Punjab, but it has reached to the extent of 62.79% during 2004. The choice for number of cotton varieties was curtailed to six by the Government of Punjab due to CLCV. So public and private seed sector experienced a great difficulty in meeting the target, as farmer’s option was further restricted to 3 varieties only i.e. CIM-446, CIM-473 and FH-901. Similar trend of distribution i.e. 2002 (54.02%), 2003 (46.00%) and 2004 (49.57%) in Punjab. Total distribution of national level was satisfactory i.e. 46.83%, 55.62% and 52.79% respectively. Seed certification programme is suffering badly due to pre-release leakage of seed of candidate varieties and their commercial coverage under the publicity of unscrupulous seed dealers or other stake holders causes a great damage to seed certification programme. Effective cotton control ordinance and self imposed disciplined on Cotton Research Institutes is the only option for systematic seed production. |
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Paddy: There is slightly high trend of seed procurement i.e. 12.84% during 2002-03 compared to 11.22% during 2001-02 and increased upto 25.55% during 2003-04. It reached to 30% during 2004-05. Super Basmati is gaining popularity both in Punjab and Sindh, so there was great demand of seed. The paddy procurement during 2005 is about 30% which is 4.5% more than last year. The programme of fine paddy was 33.55% in Punjab. Maize: Similarly, high distribution i.e. 10.92% during 2002-03, as compared to last year i.e. 10.52%. During 2004, distribution was to the tune of 14.08%. Private seed sector is endeavoring to capture market for hybrid seed. There are certain local efforts initiated very recently for hybrid seed production by local scientists/seed companies. PulsesGram: Though there is also improvement trend in vegetable crops, but there is problem in gram due to marketing as there was no demand for gram seed, hence private sectors made sudden decline in their procurement programme of gram seed from 902 mt. (2002-03) to 488 mt. in 2003-04. Private sector is discouraged by market trend and low priority of gram quality seed among farmers during 3rd year. Mungbean: There is also improvement trend in Mungbean crops as compared to the progress of 2002-03 i.e: 10.15% availability wherein during 2003-04 the availability is 15.04%.
Oil Seeds Sunflower: There is also improvement trend in the sowing pattern of Sunflower during 2003-04 where approx. 5,50,000 acres were cultivated. (Source: PODB). There is substantial increase in area under sunflower cultivation in and consequently more seed has been reported, during 2002-03, total seed availability was 52.35%, whereas during 2003-04 availability has reached to 64%. Such huge import of sensitive seed is very risky, as crop is very specific and sensitive to the environmental change without coordinated efforts of PODP, PARC and FSC&RD, sub standards seed would always cause damage. PODP, having oilseed mandate, should organize trials of imported hybrid seed and make recommendation for import. Vegetable: Private sector is not motivated for vegetable seed production due to two main reasons imported:
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