Lok Sabha Question No. 2455 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-08-04
Subject: Seed and Fertilizer Testing Institutes
Ministry: AGRICULTURE
Asked by: LAXMI NARAYAN YADAV

O.I.H

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & COOPERATION

**LOK  SABHA**

**UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2455**

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE  4 TH AUGUST, 2015

**SEED AND FERTILIZER TESTING INSTITUTES**

2455. 	   SHRI LAXMI NARAYAN YADAV:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE 	     कृषि मंत्री

be pleased  to state:

(a) 	the number of institutes for seed, fertilizer 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 the testing of specimen in the said institutes due to the shortage of sufficient staff and equipments;

(d)	 if so, the corrective steps taken by the Government in this regard; and

(e)	 the target fixed for specimen testing by the said institutes during the last three

years and the current year along with the number of specimens tested?

### 1 ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

कृषि मंत्रालय में राज्य मंत्री  (DR. SANJEEV KUMAR BALYAN)

(a):	The National Seed Research and Training Centre, Varanasi and the Central Fertilizers Quality Control and Training Institute, Faridabad are institutes under  Department of Agriculture and Cooperation for testing seeds and chemical fertilizer respectively in the country.

(b):	The total amount spent and testing work carried out by these institutes during last three years are annexed.

(c) & (d):	No specific problem was faced by these institutes in testing of samples due to the shortage of staff and equipments.  Moreover, steps have been taken for filling up the vacant  post in the said institutes.

(e):	National Seed Research and Training Centre, Varanasi has been assigned the target to test litigation seed samples received from various Courts and referral samples received from various State Seed Testing Laboratories in the country.

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The number of samples tested in last three years and current year is as under:

|   S.No. | Year    | No. of Samples Tested   |
|---------|---------|-------------------------|
|       1 | 2012-13 | 17897                   |
|       2 | 2013-14 | 19057                   |
|       3 | 2014-15 | 19281                   |
|       4 | 2015-16 | 4530 (upto June, 2015)  |

The Central Fertilizers Quality Control and Training Institute, Faridabad has been assigned the target of drawing the sample from all Ships/ Containers Containing imported fertilizer for testing.  The number of samples tested in last three years is as under :

|   S.No. | Year    | No. of Samples Tested   |
|---------|---------|-------------------------|
|       1 | 2012-13 | 9233                    |
|       2 | 2013-14 | 6234                    |
|       3 | 2014-15 | 2837                    |
|       4 | 2015-16 | 0735 (upto June, 2015)  |

**ANNEXURE**

Details of total amount spent and testing work carried out at National Seed Research and Training Centre, Varanasi during last three years

|   Sl. No. | Year    |   Expenditure(Rs. in lakh) |   No. of samples tested |
|-----------|---------|----------------------------|-------------------------|
|         1 | 2012-13 |                     189.14 |                   17897 |
|         2 | 2013-14 |                     199.75 |                   19057 |
|         3 | 2014-15 |                     233.40 |                   19281 |

Details of total amount spent and testing work carried out at Central Fertilizers Quality Control and Training Institute, Faridabad during last three years.

|   Sl. No. | Year    |   Expenditure(Rs. in lakh) |   No. of samples tested |
|-----------|---------|----------------------------|-------------------------|
|         1 | 2012-13 |                     422.13 |                    9233 |
|         2 | 2013-14 |                     439.57 |                    6234 |
|         3 | 2014-15 |                     493.01 |                    2837 |

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