Procedure of seed certification

1. First of all, the certified grower should apply for the registration to the concerned certifying agency along with their personal information and purpose of application.
2. As the application gets approval they are provided with genetically and physically pure breeder seed along with little funding.
3. After collecting breeder seed grower sow those seed in the isolated field so as to protect them from any kind of contamination. The sowing report should be prepared and provided to concerned agency.
4. Certifying agency then send the field inspector or officer to inspect the field to verify the factors affecting purity and health of seed. Field inspection takes places in different stages of crop such as vegetative state, flowering stage, fruiting, pre-harvesting, harvesting and post-harvesting stages. From these inspections the inspector also makes the report in different indices of seed.
5. If the report is satisfactory, fulfills all the criteria of purity and health, then it is collected and stored or transferred to nursery for sowing or storage along with tagging with the tags of different tags which includes the name of producer, name of species, date of collection, locality factor, climatic condition, soil condition and quality of seed, date of dispatch and condition of seed at the time of dispatch.