Shakshi Beej Private Limited

SBPL strongly believes that R&D is the key to producing superior products and maintaining market leadership. This belief has resulted in several milestones in the company’s history. SBPL was the first seed company worldwide to successfully commercialize.

Plant biotechnology applications in the field have delivered significant economic benefits to the farmer and can play an important role in improving human health. Better crop pest and disease tolerance, fewer applications of pesticides, better nutritive value and higher yield are some of the benefits that current and future biotechnology crops can deliver.

SBPL has a broad germplasm base to ensure success in its breeding programs. SBPL also undertakes its research at numerous centres all over the country. In addition, its multi-location crop performance testing programme operates from 18 different centres across the country.

Research in Plant Biotechnology

SBPL has been playing a leadership role in delivering biotechnology crops to the Indian farmer.

At SBPL, plant biotechnology is viewed as a tool to be used in a selective manner, as an integral part of plant breeding programs. Traits of value that are difficult to breed for, or are absent in germplasm available to breeders, are the focus of biotechnology research at SBPL. These traits, when made available, enable our breeders to incorporate them in a precise manner, eliminating unwanted traits that are retained in traditional breeding methods.