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XX Brazilian Congress of Seed Technology: Brazil ramps up efforts to combat seed piracy
Aug. 15, 2017
By Leonardo Gottems, reporter of AgroPages
The Director of the Agricultural Defense Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, André Peralta, affirmed that Brazil has been intensifying efforts to combat piracy of seeds.
He said the government is working to spread awareness among rural producers that pirated seed can compromise the crop: “He can think that is cheaper, but if you do the calculations, you can have crop loss.”
Present at the XX Brazilian Congress of Seeds, Peralta spoke exclusively to AgroPages. He mentioned several risks posed to the Brazilian farmer in buying illegal seed: “You have reduced yields, and do not have a guarantee of what is being bought. You can be paying for a cultivar that is one and can be other.”
He also guaranteed that the effort to combat piracy is a priority of the Department of Inputs Enforcement, but that the task is extremely tough. “It is a world to be enforced. Potentially, every farmer can sell the seed that could just be for personal use. So, in this universe of enforcement, all are farmers in Brazil, which for us is a world.”
“What the Ministry has been done today is to act based on complaints. Any citizen can report a pirate, and has several channels for doing that. They can inform the ombudsman of the Ministry or contact any superintendent of the Ministry in his state, but he or she should have the first name, last name, and address, because we cannot be running against trucks,” he explained.
Peralta also emphasized that the practice of piracy can result in serious consequences. “The name pirate already suggests that it is an illegal product. A farmer is given the right to produce his own seed, but each crop can reserve the part of its production for the following crop. What he cannot do, in any case, is to sell the seed that he saved or bought from someone that does not have a National Registration of Seeds and Seedlings. In both cases, he is infringing the law - the one who is selling and the one buying.”
Source: AgroNews
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