Seed is associated with human civilization and culture and played important role in the successful crop production and sustaining prosperous agriculture. The
philosophy based on the virtues of the seed has eulogized the seed as the important initial capital and the germinating seed as the real indicator of the success of the crop and the quality seed itself ensuring half the success of the crop. Seed is a living thing. Maintenance of genetic characteristics in self pollinated and cross pollinated crops through seeds demand well defined procedures. The quality assured seeds are the resultant products of breeding improved crop varieties and clonal crops and helped the mankind from food scarcity to achieve food security and added nutritional security as well. Quality assured seeds of the improved crop helped to defend environmental and climate challenges and biotic and abiotic stresses.