Availability of foods grains per person has increased from 452 g per capita per day to over 476 g per capita per day, even as the country's human population almost doubled from 548 million to about 1025 million. This could have been possible due to the positive efforts of agricultural research and extension policies and availability of matching technologies for nutrient-water-soil-stress management with high yielding varieties of crop plants. The continued availability of food grain also depends upon the supply of quality seeds to the end-users. The quality seed remains the architect of evergreen revolution under Indian perspective. The sowing-seed-quality is governed by several factors and demands a vigilant-eye on maintenance of utmost quality at every step of its production and distribution.

Seed Certification is a legally approved system to maintain quality of seeds during seed production, post harvest operations and formal distribution of seeds. It includes field inspections, at prescribed time and crop stages, various quality tests, pre-and post-control plots with perfect monitoring system. After the emergence of World Trade Organization and subsequent implementation and involvement in implementations of various obligations under different treaties the awareness for seed quality has increased. Hence, the quality aspect can not no longer be ignored by traders, users, consumers and producers of seed.

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1. Seed in India: Present and Future
2. Seed Production System in India
3. Seed Policy and Legislation in India
4. An Introduction of PPV and FR Act 2001
5. Agronomical Consider During Seed Certification
6. Certification for Objectionable Seed Born Disease
7. Objectionable Weed in Seed Quality Control and their Management
8. Seed Processing
9. Receipt and Registration of Samples
10. Physics Purity Analysis
11. Seed Germination Testing
12. Seed Viability
13. Seed Moisture Testing
14. Seed Health Testing
15. Field Inspection
16. Testing of Genetic Purity
17. Seed Certification of Soybean
18. Seed Certification in Wheat
19. Seed Certification of Oil Seed Crop
20. Seed Certification of Maize, Sorghum and Pearl Millet
21. Certification of Gm Crop with Special Reference to Bt
22. Seed Certification Standard of Rice
23. Seed Certification of Chickpea
24. Recent Advance in Seed Certification of Forage Crops
25. Hybrid Seed Production
26. Revised Notified Seed Certification Standard

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