Lok Sabha Question No. 3831 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-21
Subject: Testing of Seeds and Fertilizers
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Rajeshbhai Naranbhai Chudasama

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3831

TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 st  DECEMBER, 2021

## TESTING OF SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS

3831.  SHRI RAJESHBHAI  CHUDASAMA:

Will  the  Minister  of  AGRICULTURE  &  FARMERS  WELFARE कृ िष और कसान कयाण मंी be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of institutes for testing of  seeds  and fertilizers in the  country along with the details thereof;
- (b) the total amount spent on the said institutes during the last three years along with the total testing work carried out by them;
- (c) whether  several  problems  are  being  faced  in  testing  of  specimen  in  the  said institutes due to shortage of sufficient staff and equipments; and
- (d) if  so,  the corrective steps taken by the Government in this regard and the target fixed for specimen testing by the said institutes during last three years and the current year?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS' WELFARE कृ िष और कसानकयाण मंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a).     The 167 notified seed testing laboratories are working across the Country. The National  Seed  Research  &  Training  Centre  (NSRTC) Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) under the Department of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare is working as Central Seed Testing Laboratory  which  analyse  5%  seeds  samples  received  from  various  notified  Seed Testing laboratories to make uniformity in seed testing. Besides, NSRTC is also working as referral seed testing laboratory for the court referred seed samples. The details of notified Seed Testing laboratories are at Annexure-I.

There are 83 notified fertilizer quality control laboratories working in the Country with  analysing  capacity  of  190100  samples  per  annum.  Out  of  83  laboratories,  4 laboratories are under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and remaining 79  laboratories  are  notified  in  different  States.  The  details  of  State  wise  number  of fertilizer laboratories and number of fertilizer samples analysed are at Annexure-II.

- (b). The  Department  of  Agriculture  &  Farmers'  Welfare  provides  financial assistance for strengthening of notified seed testing laboratories under Sub-Mission on Seeds & Planting Material. An amount of Rs. 17.59 Crore has been released to the  States/  implementing  agencies  for  strengthening  of  Seed  Testing  Laboratories during last three years.

In  addition  to  this,  the  details  of  amount  spent  and  numbers  of  seed samples  tested  in  the  Central  Seed  Testing  Laboratory,  NSRTC,  Varanasi  (Uttar Pradesh)  under  the  Ministry  of  Agriculture  and  Farmers'  Welfare  during  last  three years is as under:

|   S. No. | Year    |   No. of seed samples tested |   Expenditure (Rs. in Crore) |
|----------|---------|------------------------------|------------------------------|
|        1 | 2018-19 |                        19812 |                         4.24 |
|        2 | 2019-20 |                        20334 |                         2.35 |
|        3 | 2020-21 |                        20611 |                         2.12 |

The  total  amount  spent  on  4  fertilizer  quality  control  laboratories  under  the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare during last three years is as under:

|   S. No. | Year    |   Expenditure (Rs. in Crore) |
|----------|---------|------------------------------|
|        1 | 2018-19 |                         7.25 |
|        2 | 2019-20 |                         5.97 |
|        3 | 2020-21 |                         4.94 |

- (c) &(d). No specific problem has been reported by the States due to shortage of staff. There are no targets fixed by the Govt. of India.

## Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.3831 due for answer on 21.12.2021 raised by Shri Rajeshbhai Chudasama  regarding  Testing of Seeds and Fertilizers

Annexure-I

Details of State wise Seed Testing  and DNA Laboratories

| S. No.   | Name of State          | Name of Seed Testing   | Laboratory             |
|----------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh         |                        | 1. Guntur              |
|          |                        |                        | 2. Kadapa              |
|          |                        |                        | 3.Tadapaligudam(Eluru) |
|          |                        |                        | 4.Yammiganur           |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 4                      |
| 2.       | Arunanchal Pradesh     |                        | 5.Naharlagun           |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 1                      |
| 3.       | Assam                  |                        | 6.Banganigaon          |
|          |                        |                        | 7.Guwahati             |
|          |                        |                        | 8. Jorhat              |
|          |                        |                        | 9.Silchar              |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 4                      |
| 4.       | Bihar                  |                        | 10.Bhabhua (Kaimur)    |
|          |                        |                        | 11.Bhagalpur           |
|          |                        |                        | 12.Darbhanga           |
|          |                        |                        | 13.Motihari            |
|          |                        |                        | 14.Muzaffarpur         |
|          |                        |                        | 15.Patna               |
|          |                        |                        | 16.Saharsa             |
| 5.       | Sub Total Chhattisgarh |                        | 7 17. Raipur           |
|          |                        |                        | 18.Bilaspur            |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 2                      |
| 6.       | Delhi                  |                        | 19.Barawala            |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 1                      |
| 7.       | Goa                    |                        | 20. Old Goa            |
| 8.       | Gujarat                |                        | 22.Gandhinagar         |
|          |                        |                        | 21.Ahamadabad          |
|          |                        |                        | 23. Junagarh           |
|          |                        |                        | 24. Navsari            |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 4                      |
| 9.       | Haryana                |                        | 25.Panchkula           |
|          |                        |                        | 26.Rohtak              |
|          |                        |                        | 27.Sirsa               |
|          |                        |                        | 28.Uchani (Karnal)     |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 4                      |
| 10.      | H.P.                   |                        | 29. Mandi              |
|          |                        |                        | 30. Palampur           |
|          |                        |                        | 31. Shimla             |
|          |                        |                        | 32. Solan              |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 4                      |
| 11.      | J & K                  |                        | 33. Jammu              |
|          |                        |                        | 34. Srinagar           |
|          | Sub Total              |                        | 2                      |
| 12.      | Jharkhand              |                        | 35.Dumka               |

|     |            | 37.Ranchi                    |
|-----|------------|------------------------------|
|     |            | 38.Sahabganj                 |
|     | Sub Total  | 4                            |
| 13. | Karnataka  | 39.Davanagere                |
|     |            | 40.Gangavathi                |
|     |            | 41.Dharwad                   |
|     |            | 42.Hebbal                    |
|     |            | 43.Raichur                   |
|     |            | 44.Dharwad                   |
|     | Sub Total  | 45.Hebbal 7                  |
| 14. | Kerala     | 46.Allapuzha                 |
|     |            | 47. Pattambi                 |
|     |            | 48.Thiruvananthapuram        |
|     | Sub Total  | 3                            |
| 15. | M.P.       | 49. Bhopal                   |
|     |            | 50. Indore                   |
|     |            | 51. Jabalpur                 |
|     |            | 52. Ujjain                   |
|     |            | 53. Bhopal                   |
|     |            | 54. Gwalior                  |
|     |            | 55. Hosangabad               |
|     |            | 56. Indore                   |
|     |            | 58. Sagar                    |
|     |            | 59. Ujjain                   |
|     |            | 60. Rewa                     |
|     |            | 61. Shadol                   |
|     | Sub Total  | 13                           |
| 16. | Maharastra | 62.Akola                     |
|     |            | 63.Aurangabad                |
|     |            | 64.Nagpur                    |
|     |            | 65.Parbhani                  |
|     |            | 66. Pune                     |
|     | Sub Total  | 67. Jalna 6                  |
| 17. | Manipur    | 68. Imphal                   |
|     | Sub Total  | 1                            |
| 18. | Meghalaya  | 69. Shillong                 |
|     | Sub Total  | 1                            |
| 19. | Mizoram    | 70. Aizawal                  |
|     | Sub Total  | 1                            |
| 20  | Nagaland   | 71. Dimapur                  |
|     | Sub Total  | 1                            |
| 21. | Odisha     | 72.Balasore                  |
|     |            | 73.Barchana                  |
|     |            | 74.Bargarh                   |
|     |            | 75. Bhawanipatna             |
|     |            | 76.Bhubneshwar               |
|     |            | 77. Rayagada                 |
|     |            | 78. Sambalpur 79.Samatarapur |
|     | Sub Total  | 8                            |
| 22. | Puducherry | 80.Thattanchavady            |

|     | Sub Total            | 1                                 |
|-----|----------------------|-----------------------------------|
| 23. | Punjab               | 81.Faridkot                       |
|     |                      | 82.Gurdaspur                      |
|     |                      | 83.Ludhiana                       |
|     | Sub Total            | 3                                 |
| 24. | Rajasthan            | 84.Alwar                          |
|     |                      | 85. Bharatpur                     |
|     |                      | 86.Chhittourgarh                  |
|     |                      | 87.Durgapura,Jaipur               |
|     |                      | 88.Pant Krishi Bhavan,Jaipur      |
|     |                      | 89.Jodhpur                        |
|     |                      | 90.Kota                           |
|     |                      | 91.SriGanga Nagar                 |
|     | Sub Total            | 8 92.                             |
| 25. | Sikkim               | Mazitar                           |
|     |                      | 93. Tadong                        |
| 26. | Sub Total Tamil Nadu | 2 94.Coimbatore                   |
|     |                      | 95.Cuddalore                      |
|     |                      | 96.Dharmapuri                     |
|     |                      | 97.Dindigul                       |
|     |                      | 99.Kanchipuram                    |
|     |                      | 100. Kanyakumari                  |
|     |                      | 101.Karur                         |
|     |                      | 102.Krishnagiri 103.Madurai       |
|     |                      | 104.Nagapattinam                  |
|     |                      | 105.Nagercoil                     |
|     |                      | 106.Namakkal                      |
|     |                      | 107.Oaty                          |
|     |                      | 108.Paramakudi                    |
|     |                      | 109.Perambalur                    |
|     |                      | 110.Pudukkottai                   |
|     |                      | 111.Ramnad                        |
|     |                      | 112.Salem                         |
|     |                      | 113.Sivagangai                    |
|     |                      | 114.Thanjavur                     |
|     |                      | 115.Theni                         |
|     |                      | 116.Thiruvallur                   |
|     |                      | 117.Thiruvarur 118.Thoothukudi    |
|     |                      | 119.Tirunelveli                   |
|     |                      | 120.Tiruvannamalai                |
|     |                      | 121.Trichy                        |
|     |                      | 122.Vellore                       |
|     |                      | 123.Villupuram 124.Virudhunagar   |
|     |                      | Printing laboratory, Directorate, |
|     |                      | 125.DNA Finger Coimbatore         |
|     | Sub Total            | 126.                              |
|     |                      | Referrral Lab, Coimbatore 33      |
| 27. | Telangana            | 127. Hyderabad                    |
|     |                      | 128. Rajendranagar                |
|     |                      | 129. Karimnagar                   |

|     |                | 130. Rajendranagar    |
|-----|----------------|-----------------------|
|     | Sub Total      | 4                     |
| 28. | Tripura        | 131. Arundhatinagar   |
|     | Sub Total      | 1                     |
| 29. | U.P.           | 132.Azamgarh          |
|     |                | 133.Barabanki         |
|     |                | 134.Bareilly          |
|     |                | 135.Bareilly          |
|     |                | 136.Etawah            |
|     |                | 137.Hardoi            |
|     |                | 138.Jhansi            |
|     |                | 139.Mathura           |
|     |                | 140.Meerut            |
|     |                | 141.Varanasi          |
|     |                | 142. Agra             |
|     |                | 143. Ayodhaya         |
|     |                | 144. Lucknow          |
|     |                | 145. Lucknow          |
|     |                | 146. Mau              |
|     |                | 147. Muzaffar Nagar   |
|     |                | 148. Noida            |
|     |                | 149. Lucknow          |
|     |                | 150. Kanpur           |
|     | Sub Total      | 19                    |
| 30. | Uttarakhand    | 151.Dehradun          |
|     |                | 152.Pantnagar         |
|     |                | 153.Rudrapur          |
|     |                | 154.Haldi             |
|     |                | 155.Udham Singh Nagar |
|     | Sub Total      | 5                     |
| 31. | West Bengal    | 156.Bankura           |
|     |                | 157.Burdwan           |
|     |                | 158.Malda             |
|     |                | 159.Nadia             |
|     |                | 160.Tollygunge        |
|     | Sub Total      | 5                     |
| 32. | A & N (UT)     | 161. Port Blair       |
|     | Total (States) | 161                   |

## National Referral Laboratories to detect the presence or absence of GMPs & LMOs

1.

2.

3.

4.

Andhra Pradesh

New Delhi

Kerala

Punjab

Total

## Central Referral Laboratories

1.

Maharashtra

2.

Uttar Pradesh

Total

Grand Total

DNA  Fingerprinting  and  Transgenic  Crop  Monitoring  Lab

(DFTCML), Guntoor

ICAR-National

Bureau of

(NBPGR)Pusa, New Delhi

Export Inspection Agency (EIA), Kochi Laboratory (Kerala)

Punjab Biotechnology Incubator (PBTI), Mohali (Punjab)

04

ICAR-Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur only to test the presence or absence Bt. Gene.

Central Seed Testing Laboratory, NSRTC, Varanasi (U.P.)

02

167

Plant

Genetic

Resources

Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question  No.3831  due  for  answer  on  21.12.2021  raised  by  Shri Rajeshbhai Chudasama regarding Testing of Seeds and Fertilizers Annexure-II State  wise  number  of  Fertilizer  Quality  Control  Laboratories,  analyzing  capacity  and

## samples analyzed during 2020-21

| S. No.   | Name of State    |   No. of Labs. |   Annual Analysing Capacity |   No. of samples |
|----------|------------------|----------------|-----------------------------|------------------|
| 1        | Assam            |              1 |                         500 |              423 |
| 2        | Mizoram          |              1 |                         250 |                0 |
| 3        | Tripura          |              1 |                         500 |                0 |
| 4        | Jharkhand        |              1 |                        1500 |              602 |
| 5        | Bihar            |              1 |                        4000 |             3487 |
| 6        | Odisha           |              4 |                       15000 |             6540 |
| 7        | West Bengal      |              3 |                        4500 |             3231 |
|          | Total East & NER |             11 |                       26250 |            14283 |
| 8        | Gujarat          |              3 |                       15000 |            10247 |
| 9        | M.P.             |              6 |                       15000 |            17301 |
| 10       | Chhatisgarh      |              1 |                        3000 |             2811 |
| 11       | Maharashtra      |              5 |                       22100 |            19200 |
| 12       | Rajasthan        |              7 |                       15000 |            12570 |
|          | Total West Zone  |             22 |                       70100 |            62129 |
| 13       | Haryana          |              3 |                        5100 |             2708 |
| 14       | H.P.             |              3 |                        2000 |             2080 |
| 15       | J&K              |              2 |                        1450 |              803 |
| 16       | Punjab           |              2 |                        3600 |             3418 |
| 17       | U.P.             |              4 |                       12000 |            11654 |
| 18       | Uttarakhand      |              2 |                         500 |              418 |
|          | Total North Zone |             16 |                       24650 |            21081 |
| 19       | A.P.             |              3 |                       10500 |            10533 |
| 20       | Telangana        |              2 |                        9000 |            10320 |
| 21       | Karnataka        |              7 |                       15800 |            12683 |
| 22       | Kerala           |              2 |                        5000 |             3425 |
| 23       | Puducherry       |              1 |                         700 |              402 |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu       |             14 |                       19600 |            19530 |
|          | Total South Zone |             29 |                       60600 |            56893 |
| 25       | Govt. Of India   |              4 |                        8500 |             5141 |
|          | Total All India  |             83 |                      190100 |           159527 |

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