Sri Lanka has launched a digital platform for seed production, certification, and traceability with technical support from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, marking a significant step in the country’s push to modernise its agricultural sector.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation and the Department of Agriculture jointly launched the CROPIX Seed Production, Certification and Traceability System — part of the broader CROPIX platform, which stands for Crop Resources, Optimizing operations, through Precise Information eXchange System.
The new system is designed to address long-standing challenges in Sri Lanka’s seed sector, including delays in certification processes, limited access to quality-assured seeds, fragmented record-keeping across agencies, and poor traceability of seed distribution networks.
The platform enables real-time monitoring of seed production and certification activities, improving coordination among farmers, government agencies, and private suppliers across the seed value chain. It also improves public access to reliable data on certified seed availability.
The launch forms part of a wider digitisation drive in Sri Lankan agriculture, with CROPIX offering a centralised data exchange backbone for multiple crop-related functions. FAO’s technical involvement underscores the system’s alignment with international standards for agricultural data governance and food security.
