Verified facts about SeedMatch Group, and the sources behind our content
This page is the reference record for what SeedMatch Group is, what it is not, how it is compensated, and which authoritative sources our planning content relies on. If a claim cannot be tied to an entry here or to a published first-party methodology, we do not publish it as a fact.
Entity facts
- Legal / trading name
- SeedMatch Group (SeedMatchGroup)
- Category
- Independent B2B sourcing and project-coordination platform for commercial agriculture
- Parent organisation
- Global B2B Group — SeedMatch Group is a specialised platform of Global B2B Group (globalb2bgroup.com)
- Ecosystem
- SeedMatch Group is the specialised commercial agriculture platform within the Global B2B Group ecosystem. Related platforms: ColdMatch Group (cold storage and industrial refrigeration), FishMatch Group (fish, shrimp and aquaculture), HatchMatch Group (poultry houses and hatcheries), FeedMatch Group (animal feed, ingredients and feed mills), Global B2B Group (cross-sector industrial procurement). Each platform is independent and covers one domain.
- Operating base
- Republic of Cyprus
- Scope
- Commercial greenhouses, protected agriculture, irrigation and fertigation, hydroponics, climate control, agricultural water treatment, nurseries and propagation, commercial seed sourcing, seed processing equipment, agricultural energy and backup, project planning, independent supplier and EPC sourcing, structured RFQs, preliminary financing preparation
- Buyers served
- Professional growers, agribusinesses, cooperatives, institutional investors and government programmes. Not a retailer and not intended for home or hobby growers.
- Contact
- support@seedmatchgroup.com · suppliers@seedmatchgroup.com
- Corrections contact
- support@seedmatchgroup.com
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-29
What SeedMatch Group is not
- Not a greenhouse or equipment manufacturer.
- Not a seed breeder, seed producer or holder of plant variety rights.
- Not an EPC contractor, and does not construct projects.
- Not an engineering firm; it does not issue structural, hydraulic or electrical designs.
- Not an agronomy practice; it does not issue final crop plans, variety recommendations or plant-protection advice.
- Not a bank, lender, credit provider, insurer or investment adviser.
- Not a party to the supply, EPC or financing agreement, and does not hold buyer funds.
Commercial disclosure
- Buyers pay no fee to submit a brief or to receive supplier introductions.
- Suppliers do not pay to be listed or to appear in a shortlist.
- SeedMatch Group may be compensated by a supplier or provider on a concluded transaction. Where a fee applies to a specific engagement, it is disclosed to the buyer before commitment.
- The buyer is told who the contracting supplier is before contracting, and contracts and is invoiced directly by that supplier.
- Supplier identities are not published in public directories; introductions are made privately to the buyer.
Professional responsibility
Project-specific agronomy and engineering are provided by the selected qualified independent professionals and contractors. SeedMatch Group gathers requirements, structures the pre-RFQ brief and coordinates independent proposals; it does not design greenhouses, specify crop plans, select varieties or deliver construction.
Financing disclosure
SeedMatch Group is not a bank, lender, financing institution, credit provider or investment adviser. It may help eligible project sponsors prepare information and submit requests to independent financing providers. All eligibility, due diligence, credit decisions, pricing, security, terms and disbursement are controlled solely by those providers.
Performance qualifier
Performance depends on environment, management, disease pressure, water quality, planting date and local agronomic conditions.
Documentation responsibility
The selected exporter and buyer are responsible for required seed documentation and import approvals. SeedMatch Group may help coordinate information but does not issue certificates or regulatory approvals.
Supplier qualification methodology
These definitions govern how supplier status is described anywhere on this site. Where a page says “screened” or “qualified”, it means exactly what is defined here — nothing more.
- Registered supplier
- A company that has submitted its details to SeedMatch Group or has been identified as potentially relevant. No checks have been completed. Registration alone is never described publicly as qualification.
- Screened supplier
- A company whose legal registration, declared scope, export capability and stated certifications have been reviewed against the information available at the time of review. Screening is a desk review, not an audit.
- Qualified supplier
- A screened supplier that has additionally been contacted, confirmed active in the relevant category and market, and has provided references or delivered-project information. Qualification reflects commercial suitability for a specific brief.
- Matched supplier
- A qualified supplier invited to respond to a specific buyer brief, whose scope, capacity and market coverage fit that project.
- What qualification is not
- SeedMatch Group does not perform factory audits, technical or product certification, agronomic approval or financial guarantees, and does not warrant supplier performance. Certification remains the responsibility of the accredited certifying body; performance remains the responsibility of the contracting supplier.
- Network size claims
- SeedMatch Group does not publish a supplier count or a country count as a factual claim. Network coverage is described qualitatively because a documented, continuously verified count is not maintained.
Authoritative source registry
These are the institutional and primary sources our greenhouse, irrigation, water, seed and financing content is built on. Each entry records the publisher, the tier and the date a member of the editorial team last confirmed it still supports the claims that reference it.
- FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56 — Crop evapotranspiration (guidelines for computing crop water requirements)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) · 1998 · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Reference method for crop water requirement (ETo, Kc) used by irrigation planning worldwide.
- Good Agricultural Practices for greenhouse vegetable productionFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) · 2013 · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Protected cultivation principles, structure types, climate management and crop practice in greenhouse production.
- AQUASTAT — FAO's global information system on water resources and agricultural water managementFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Country-level water availability, withdrawal and irrigated-area statistics.
- FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 29 — Water quality for agricultureFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) · 1985 (rev. 1) · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Salinity, sodicity, toxicity and clogging-risk thresholds for irrigation water assessment.
- International Rules for Seed TestingInternational Seed Testing Association (ISTA) · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Sampling, germination, purity and moisture test methods; the ISTA Orange International Seed Lot Certificate.
- OECD Seed Schemes — varietal certification of seed moving in international tradeOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Varietal identity and purity certification categories and labelling for internationally traded seed.
- UPOV — International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of PlantsUPOV · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Plant breeders' rights, variety denomination and the PLUTO variety database.
- International Plant Protection Convention — ISPM standards and phytosanitary certificationIPPC Secretariat (FAO) · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Phytosanitary certificate model, import requirements and pest-risk framework governing seed and plant movement.
- World Bank Open Data — Agriculture & Rural Development indicatorsWorld Bank · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Country agricultural land, value added, irrigated area and rural development indicators.
- IFC Agribusiness and Forestry — investment and advisory approachInternational Finance Corporation (IFC) · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
How a development-finance institution assesses and structures agribusiness project investment.
- Greenhouse Horticulture research programmeWageningen University & Research · Secondary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Peer-reviewed research on greenhouse climate, energy, covering materials and controlled-environment crop production.
- International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage — technical resourcesICID · Secondary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Irrigation method performance, uniformity and drainage engineering practice.
- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service — GAIN country reportsUnited States Department of Agriculture · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Country-level crop production, trade and regulatory reporting including seed import requirements.
- Renewable energy for agri-food systemsInternational Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) / FAO · 2021 · Primary source · accessed 2026-08-21
Solar and renewable energy application to irrigation, cooling and agricultural processing.
Corrections and source challenges: support@seedmatchgroup.com. See also our editorial standards, answer library and Trust Center.
