The National Seed Policy provides for policy directives to increase production of improved seed both in the public and private sectors and for making best quality seeds available to the farmers on timely basis, and at competitive price. The seed policy has also provisions, among other things, for liberalisation of import of seed and seed processing machineries, strengthening of quality control and research system and maintaining a seed security arrangement. A major thrust of the seed policy has been on the institutional arrangement of the seed sector.