On August 10, 2017 in Krasnodar, the director of the Department for the Development and Management of State Information Resources of the Agro-Industrial Complex, Igor Kozubenko, held a meeting on the control of the production of high-quality domestic corn and sunflower seeds.
“Seed growing today is not just one of the lines of business. It is of great national importance, being part of the country's food security. This approach to seed production allows the annual increase in corn grain production. In 2016, a record harvest of 13,8 million tons was harvested. According to forecasts, this year's harvest will exceed the mark of 14 million tons. Such growth rates are impossible without the use of high-quality seeds, ”stressed Igor Kozubenko.
First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Yevgeny Gromyko, Director of the Department for Development and Management of State Information Resources of the Agro-Industrial Complex Igor Kozubenko, and the meeting participants clearly saw the result of using falsified seeds. At the experimental site, 182 samples of corn seeds were sampled from commodity lots in 28 regions of Russia. Even a visual assessment of the crops showed significant differences of more than a quarter of the samples from the standard.
The most effective way to combat counterfeit seeds is to analyze the varietal purity of seeds and timely informing the buyer of unscrupulous producers. To implement this task, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia is creating a federal state system in the field of seed production of agricultural plants. Such a system should provide operational accounting and processing of seed data, analysis and forecast of the market situation.
Thanks to the system, farmers will be able to track information about plant varieties, availability and quality of seeds, seed producers. Currently, the register of producers included in the system contains more than 1000 seed farms, about 140 breeders (research institutions), and up to 24 individual entrepreneurs and legal entities.
Source: http://mcx.ru/