By the year 2003, Metal turned its attention to the production and marketing of improved seeds, a basic input in agriculture to ensure genetic and physical purity of crops. This led to the creation of a subsidiary company, Metal Agro Ltd, for research and production of seeds under their own management.

Metal Agro Ltd was exclusively meant for production and research of hybrid seeds. With this end in view the Metal purchased 100 bighas (roughly 31.99 acres) of land in Debiganj of Panchagarh district in northern Bangladesh. Here they set up a state-of-the-art R&D unit of Metal agro Ltd for seed research. It was deemed important because more capital investment by the farmers demanded more returns. The use improved seeds by the farmers ensured a surplus over their investment and expenditure leading to growing demand on the industrial sector which led to the healthy growth of the economy as a whole. Indeed this was deemed so important that the Company set up another seed research unit at Salna, Gazipur on a 14 bigha plot (4.5 acres) of land.