New York City, 22 January 2019: The global Organic Seed Market is anticipated to reach USD 5.35 billion
by 2026. Growing demand for naturally derived products is the primary reason
expected to drive the organic seed industry over the next seven to eight years.
For any seed to be certified as organic
the producer or farmer should only use formerly grown seeds except for
non-originally or non-formerly farmed untreated seeds. The planting stocks can
also be used for the production of an organic crop only when an equivalent
organically breeded variety is not available commercially. Organic plant
breeding in several industrialized nations has increasingly employing molecular
techniques. Cisgenesis and transgenesis are some of the newly introduced
breeding techniques that have played significant role in increasing
availability of enhanced hybrid organic seeds. SoW-1 is another new genetically
modified (GM) seed breed that has been an increasing trend in the industry. The
product value of GM seed that have been traded increased over 25-fold in
between 1996 and 2017, from USD 280 million to around USD 7 275 million. But,
only in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, India, China and South Africa have been
growing significant acreages of GM crops.
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Various initiatives have already been
promoted for both informal and formal seed systems. The African Union has been
fully engaged in encouraging its member countries to take higher integrated
approaches to development of hybrid seed systems including private, public and
farmers’ role. In many European countries, various rules for organic seed
development have been designed to further instigate local production and sales
of organic seed in its or else exceedingly regulated seed industry. These regulatory
advancements along with technological development in seed breeding have
influenced the industry and offered new opportunities for further penetration
in the seed farming business.
Competitive
Landscape and Key Vendors:
Europe was the largest market in 2017
and with increasing organic farming land in the region the demand of these
products is further expected to increase in the near future. Organic farming or
agriculture has been a boom in the region and almost every country the market
is rapidly developing. The increasing production and higher penetration of
these products in Europe is due to high growth rates of Poland, Spain and the
Czech Republic.
Some of the leading market participants
in the organic seed industry in terms of seed farming and supply include
Renee’s Garden, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Kusa Seed Society, Territorial
Seeds Company, Arnica Kwekerij, Mass Plant, Wild Garden Seed, High Mowing
Organic Seeds, Fleuren, Vitalis Organic Seeds, HILD Samen, De Bolster,
Navdanya, Farm Direct Organic Seeds, Rijk Zwaan, Wild Garden Seeds, Fedco
Seeds, Seed Savers Exchange, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Johnny’s
Selected Seeds.
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