Lok Sabha Question No. 2383 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-03
Subject: Seed Testing Laboratories
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: S. Gnanathiraviam, Rajkumar Chahar, Vijay Kumar

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2383

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03 rd  August, 2021

## SEED TESTING LABORATORIES

2383 . SHRI GNANATHIRAVIAM S., SHRI RAJ KUMAR CHAHAR and SHRI VIJAYAKUMAR (ALIAS) VIJAY VASANTH

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

- (a) the names of places in the country where seed testing laboratories are located in the country, State wise and their functions thereof;
- (b) whether any proposal is under consideration of the Government to set up more Seed Testing Laboratories in the country particularly in major towns and also at block level in rural areas;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Tamil Nadu;
- (d) the number of poor quality samples detected by these laboratories; and
- (e) the  manner  in  which  new  laboratories  would  further  promote  production  of  quality seeds in the country?

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## ANSWER

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE कृ ष एवं कसान कयाण मंी (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a): Seed Testing Laboratories analyse the seed quality standard viz. germination per cent, purity,  moisture  content  and  admixture  of  seeds  of  other  distinguish  varieties/crops,  inert matter etc. thereby enabling the farming community to get quality seeds for better production and productivity. The list of state wise seed testing laboratories is at Annexure-I.
- (b) & (c): The Department provides financial support to States/UTs for strengthening of Seed Testing  Laboratories  for  purchase  of  new  equipment,  DNA  Finger  Printing  Facilities  and specialized Seed Health Testing Unit, office automation/ communication facilities etc. under Sub-Mission on Seeds and Planting Material (SMSP).

(d)&(e): The information in respect to poor quality /sub-standard seed samples as reported by various States/ UTs is at Annexure-II . New Seed Testing Laboratories will further strengthen the seed quality control regime in the states and to make sure the availability of quality seeds to the farmers.

## State-wise details of Seed Testing Laboratories (STL)

| S. No.   | State/ UT      | Location of STLs in the State   |
|----------|----------------|---------------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh | 1. Adoni                        |
|          |                | 2. Allagadda                    |
|          |                | 3. Alur                         |
|          |                | 4. Amadalavalasa                |
|          |                | 5. Anakapalle                   |
|          |                | 6. Anaparthy                    |
|          |                | 7. Araku Valley                 |
|          |                | 8. Atmakur                      |
|          |                | 9. Badvel                       |
|          |                | 10.Bapatla                      |
|          |                | 11.Bheemili                     |
|          |                | 12.Bhimadole                    |
|          |                | 13.Chandragiri                  |
|          |                | 14.Cheepurupalli                |
|          |                | 15.Chilakaluripet               |
|          |                | 16.Chinthapalli                 |
|          |                | 17.Chodavaram                   |
|          |                | 18.Chuttugunta Centre           |
|          |                | 19.Gudivada                     |
|          |                | 20.Guntur                       |
|          |                | 21.Jaggaiahpeta                 |
|          |                | 22.Jaggampeta                   |
|          |                | 23.Kadapa                       |
|          |                | 24.Kamalapuram                  |
|          |                | 25.Kandukur                     |
|          |                | 26.Kanigiri                     |
|          |                | 27.Kankipadu                    |
|          |                | 28.Kavali                       |
|          |                | 29.Konduru                      |
|          |                | 30.Korukonda                    |
|          |                | 31.Kotturu                      |
|          |                | 32.Kovur                        |
|          |                | 33.Krosur                       |
|          |                | 34.Kurnool                      |
|          |                | 35.Machilipatnam                |
|          |                | 36.Madakasira                   |
|          |                | 37.Madanapalli                  |
|          |                | 38.Mantralayam Village          |
|          |                | 39.Maylavaram                   |
|          |                | 40.Molakalacheruvu              |
|          |                | 41.Mummidivaram                 |
|          |                | 42.Nagari                       |
|          |                | 44.Nandyal                      |
|          |                | 45.Narasaraopet                 |
|          |                | 46.Narpala                      |
|          |                | 47.Narsipatnam 48.Nellimarla    |
|          |                | 49.Nuzvid                       |

|             | 50.Onipenta Mydukur      |
|-------------|--------------------------|
|             | 51.Pamarru               |
|             | 52.Pattikonda            |
|             | 53.Penukonda             |
|             | 54.Piduguralla           |
|             | 55.Podalakur             |
|             | 56.Ponnuru               |
|             | 57.Prathipadu            |
|             | 58.Proddatur             |
|             | 59.Pulivendula           |
|             | 60.Rajam                 |
|             | 61.Ramachandrapuram      |
|             | 62.Rampachodavram        |
|             | 63.Ranastalam            |
|             | 64.Ravulapalem           |
|             | 65.Rayadurgam            |
|             | 66.Singarayakonda        |
|             | 67.Srikalahasti          |
|             | 68.Tadepalligudem        |
|             | 69.Tadipatri             |
|             | 70.Tenali                |
|             | 71.Uravakonda            |
|             | 72.Venkatagiri           |
|             | 73.Vinukonda             |
|             | 74.Vizianagaram          |
|             | 75.Yemmiganur            |
|             | 76.Tadapaligudam (Eluru) |
|             | 77.Vijayawada            |
|             | 78.Yammiganur            |
| 2.          | 1. Naharlagun            |
|             | 1                        |
| 3.          | 1. Banganigaon           |
|             | 2. Guwahati              |
|             | 3.                       |
|             | Jorhat                   |
|             | 4. Silchar               |
|             | 4                        |
| 4.          | 1. Bhabhua               |
|             | 2. Bhagalpur             |
|             | 3. Darbhanga             |
|             | 4. Motihari              |
|             | 5. Muzaffarpur           |
|             | 6. Patna                 |
|             | 7. Saharsa 7             |
| 5.          | 1. Bilaspur              |
| Chattisgarh | 2. Raipur                |
|             | 2                        |
| 6.          | 1. Barawala              |
|             | 1                        |
| 7.          | 1. Old Goa               |
| 8. Gujarat  | 1. Ahamadabad            |

|     |                  | 2. Gandhinagar        |
|-----|------------------|-----------------------|
|     | 3.               | Junagarh              |
|     |                  | 4. Navsari            |
|     | Sub Total =      |                       |
| 9.  | Haryana          | 1. Panchkula          |
|     |                  | 2. Rohtak             |
|     | 3.               |                       |
|     | 4.               | Sirsa Uchani (Karnal) |
|     | Sub Total =      |                       |
| 10. | Himachal Pradesh | 1. Mandi              |
|     | 2.               | Palampur              |
|     | 3.               | Shimla                |
|     |                  | 4. Solan              |
|     | Sub Total =      | 4                     |
| 11. | Jammu & Kashmir  | 1. Jammu              |
|     | 2.               | Srinagar              |
|     | Sub Total =      | 2                     |
| 12. | Jharkhand        | 1. Dumka              |
|     | 2.               | Jamshedpur            |
|     | 3.               | Ranchi                |
|     | 4.               | Sahabganj             |
|     | Sub Total =      | 4                     |
| 13. | Karnataka        | 1. Davanagere         |
|     | 2.               | Dharwad - 2           |
|     |                  | 3. Gangavathi         |
|     | 4.               | Hebbal - 2            |
|     | 5.               | Raichur               |
|     | Sub Total =      |                       |
| 14. | Kerala           | 7 1. Allapuzha        |
|     | 2.               | Pattambi              |
|     |                  | 3. Thiruvananthapuram |
|     | Sub Total =      | 3                     |
| 15. | Madhya Pradesh   | 1. Bhopal - 2         |
|     |                  | 2. Gwalior            |
|     | 3.               | Hosangabad            |
|     |                  | 4. Indore - 2         |
|     | 5.               | Jabalpur - 2          |
|     |                  | 6. Rewa               |
|     | 7.               | Sagar                 |
|     |                  | 8. Shadol             |
|     |                  | 9. Ujjain - 2         |
|     | Sub Total =      | 13                    |
| 16. | Maharastra       | 1. Akola              |
|     | 2.               | Aurangabad            |
|     |                  | 3. Jalna              |
|     |                  | 4. Nagpur             |
|     | 5.               | Parbhani              |
|     | 6. Sub Total =   | Pune 6                |
| 17. | Manipur          | 1. Imphal             |
|     | Sub Total =      | 1                     |
| 18. | Meghalaya        | 1. Shillong           |
| 19. | Sub Total =      | 1 1. Aizawal          |
|     | Mizoram          |                       |

|     | 1                             |
|-----|-------------------------------|
| 20  | 1. Dimapur                    |
|     | 1                             |
| 21. | 1. Balasore                   |
|     | 2. Barchana                   |
|     | 3. Bargarh                    |
|     | 4. Bhawanipatna               |
|     | 5. Bhubneshwar                |
|     | 6. Rayagada                   |
|     | 7. Sambalpur                  |
|     | 8. Samantarapur               |
| 22. | 1. Thattanchavady             |
|     | 1                             |
| 23. | 1. Faridkot                   |
|     | 2. Gurdaspur                  |
|     | 3. Ludhiana                   |
|     | 3                             |
| 24. | 1. Alwar                      |
|     | 2. Bharatpur                  |
|     | 3. Chhittourgarh              |
|     | 4. Durgapura, Jaipur          |
|     | 5. Pant Krishi Bhawan, Jaipur |
|     | 6. Jodhpur                    |
|     | 7. Kota                       |
|     | 8. SriGangaNagar              |
|     | 8                             |
| 25. | 1. Tadong                     |
| 26. | 1. Coimbatore                 |
|     | 2. Cuddalore                  |
|     | 3. Dharmapuri                 |
|     | 4. Dindigul                   |
|     | 5. Erode                      |
|     | 6. Kanchipuram                |
|     | 7. Kanyakumari                |
|     | 8. Karur                      |
|     | 9. Krishnagiri                |
|     | 10.Madurai                    |
|     | 11.Nagapattinam               |
|     | 12.Nagercoil                  |
|     | 13.Namakkal                   |
|     | 14.Ooty                       |
|     | 15.Paramakudi                 |
|     | 16.Perambalur                 |
|     | 17.Pudukkottai                |
|     | 18.Ramnad                     |
|     | 19.Salem                      |
|     | 20.Sivagangai                 |
|     | 21.Thanjavur                  |
|     | 22.Theni                      |
|     | 23.Thiruvallur - 2            |
|     | 24.Thoothukudi 25.Tirunelveli |

|     |                        | 26.Tiruvannamalai   |
|-----|------------------------|---------------------|
|     |                        | 27.Trichy           |
|     |                        | 28.Vellore          |
|     |                        | 29.Villupuram       |
|     |                        | 30.Virudhunagar     |
|     | Sub Total =            | 31                  |
| 27. | Telangana              | 1. Hyderabad        |
|     |                        | 2. Karimnagar       |
|     | 3.                     | Rajendranagar - 2   |
|     | Sub Total =            | 4                   |
| 28. | Tripura                | 1. Arundhati Nagar  |
|     | Sub Total =            | 1                   |
| 29. | Uttar Pradesh          | 1. Agra             |
|     | 2.                     | Ayodhya             |
|     | 3.                     | Azamgarh            |
|     | 4.                     | Barabanki           |
|     | 5.                     | Bareilly - 2        |
|     | 6.                     | Etawah              |
|     | 7.                     | Faizabad            |
|     | 8.                     | Hardoi              |
|     | 9.                     | Jhansi              |
|     |                        | 10.Kanpur           |
|     |                        | 11.Lucknow - 2      |
|     |                        | 12.Mathura          |
|     | 13.Mau                 |                     |
|     |                        | 14.Meerut           |
|     |                        | 15.Muzaffarnagar    |
|     |                        | 16.Varanasi         |
|     | Sub Total =            | 18                  |
| 30. | Uttarakhand            | 1. Dehradun         |
|     | Haldi                  | 2.                  |
|     | 3.                     | Pant Nagar          |
|     |                        | 4. Rudrapur         |
|     | 5.                     | Udham Singh Nagar   |
|     | Sub Total =            | 5                   |
| 31. | West Bengal            | 1. Bankura          |
|     | 2.                     | Burdwan             |
|     | 3.                     | Malda               |
|     | 4.                     | Nadia               |
|     |                        | 5. Tollygunge       |
|     | Sub Total =            | 5                   |
| 32. | Andaman & Nicobar (UT) | 1. Port Blair       |
|     | Sub Total =            | 1                   |
|     | Grand Total =          | 231                 |

## Annexure-II

## State-wise poor quality/ sub-standard seed samples-2020-21

|   Sr. No. | State/ Union Territory   |   Number of poor quality samples |
|-----------|--------------------------|----------------------------------|
|         1 | Andaman & Nicobar Island |                               45 |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh           |                             1625 |
|         3 | Bihar                    |                             1017 |
|         4 | Chhattisgarh             |                              172 |
|         5 | Delhi                    |                               15 |
|         6 | Gujarat                  |                             3655 |
|         7 | Haryana                  |                               16 |
|         8 | Jammu & Kashmir          |                              192 |
|         9 | Jharkhand                |                               50 |
|        10 | Karnataka                |                              634 |
|        11 | Madhya Pradesh           |                             1004 |
|        12 | Maharashtra              |                            29932 |
|        13 | Odisha                   |                             1218 |
|        14 | Puducherry               |                               14 |
|        15 | Punjab                   |                              228 |
|        16 | Rajasthan                |                              286 |
|        17 | Tamilnadu                |                             7829 |
|        18 | Telangana                |                              278 |
|        19 | Uttar Pradesh            |                             4439 |
|        20 | Uttarakhand              |                              139 |
|        21 | West Bengal              |                             2705 |

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