ECHO Hosts Meet On Min Wages In Seed Supply Chain

Hyderabad: Enabling Child and Human Rights with Seed Organisations (ECHO) convened a multistakeholder consultation on Minimum Wages in the Seed Supply Chain on here on Wednesday. The event brought together leading seed companies, civil society organisations, and industry stakeholders to share learnings, outcomes, and best practices from the multi-season Minimum Wages Pilot Project in corn seed production.

The consultation was supported by ECHO’s founding member companies—Bayer, Syngenta, East-West Seed India, BASF Nunhems, Advanta, HM CLAUSE, SeedWorks, and Glocal Research—who presented their initiatives and learnings, highlighting progress made and challenges encountered in promoting wage compliance across the seed production landscape.