OVERVIEW: The National Seed Policy is the Ministry's outline of the intervention measures to be implemented in the seed sub sector in order to achieve the stated objective of availing adequate high quality seed and planting material for the country's farming and forestry needs.

This is intended to be achieved through the implementation of measures geared towards exploiting the potential of improved varieties and technologies for increased agricultural and forestry productivity; building capacity and infrastructure development within the seed industry to handle research and development, quality control, technology transfer, and other emerging technologies; establishing an effective regulation, coordination and management of all activities within the sub sector and, creating an enabling environment, through policy and legal reforms for effective participation of both public and private sector.