Lucknow, April 25 -- The Centre is close to finalising new laws on seeds and pesticides, Union agriculture and farmers' welfare minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Friday, indicating that the proposed legislations were likely to be tabled in the next session of Parliament.

Chouhan said the new legal framework aimed to ensure quality farm inputs and curb the menace of spurious seeds and pesticides that often lead to crop losses.

He was replying to a question while addressing a press conference on the sidelines of a zonal agricultural conference of northern states in Lucknow.

The conference was attended by chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh agriculture minister Surya Pratap Shahi, horticulture minister Dinesh Singh and repr...