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Digitizing State of Seed Certification System in Ethiopia
D igitizing St at e of S eed Certification Syst em in Et hiopia
The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is currently coordinating and implementing a project entitled

“Strengthening seed certification capacity as an intervention to address seed quality problems in
Ethiopia” financed by Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). It is being implemented

in partnership with Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNP regions Seed Regulatory Authorities. The

initiation of designing the project emanated from the prevailing capacity gap of implementing

partners and seed laboratories of the aforementioned regions taking into account of human,
logistic and other systemic bottlenecks.

The objective of the project is to strengthen seed certification service coverage capacity and

enhance seed quality and grain productivity of smallholder farmers. In view of this objective, the
beneficiaries of the project include: four regional and one federal regulatory authority and 16

seed laboratories in four project regions. The project also assists the seed inspectors to inspect

the seed field properly. Likewise, competent members of the technical committee drawn from

different institutes are supported to evaluate candidate varieties supplied by the Institute of
Agricultural research, higher Institute, public and private companies.

The Project has four components including:

Component A: Operationalized ICT assisted certification
Component A: O per ationaliz ed ICT assist ed certification
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Component B: Enhanced logistic cap acit y of S eed
Component B: Enhanced logistic capacity of Seed
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Component C: Self-Certification and

Component D: Enhanced technical capacity of
Component D: Enhanced t ec hnical cap acit y of
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