Overview

• The Agriculture Ministry has launched a formal investigation into seed suppliers after farmers in Ganjbasoda reported widespread soybean germination failures.
• Draft amendments to seed and pesticide laws are being prepared to impose stricter penalties on suppliers of spurious agricultural inputs.
• A nationwide review of germination failures will assess seed quality across Madhya Pradesh and other states.
• The Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee criticized the probe as a political gesture and accused the minister of ignoring a pre-existing seed-supply nexus.
• This initiative builds on the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan’s lab-to-land model that mobilized scientists for field-driven crop research.