SATHI is a national portal envisioned and created by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of India, in partnership with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) with the vision “to build a digital ecosystem to effectively monitor the seed production and distribution chain and provide complete traceability of the seeds from the point of origin till they reach the farmer.” SATHI Phase 1 was launched by the Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri. Narendra Singh Tomar, on April 19, 2023.

The development of the portal has been taken up in two phases.

Phase I of the project covers onboarding the stakeholders involved in nucleus-to-breeder seed production, breeder-to-found foundation and foundation-to-certified seed production processes to the SATHI platform and capturing their transactions at the granular level. The system provides a facility to do field inspections through a mobile app and capture inspection data at the source.

Phase II of the project will cover the seed supply chain and inventory management. The movement of seed bags in the supply chain will be recorded in real-time through QR-coded seed bags to provide end-to-end traceability and seed inventory from Micro to Macro level (Retailer to State and National level).