Proposing conditions for production and trading of plant varieties

In the draft Law on Cultivation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development proposed regulations on conditions for production and trading of plant varieties.

According to the draft, a plant variety production facility must meet the following conditions: Have at least one technical staff member with a college degree or higher in the field of cultivation, with a certificate in plant variety management issued by a provincial-level specialized management agency; have a plant variety production process issued by competent authorities or a process issued by the facility itself in accordance with the production requirements of each type of variety; have or rent technical facilities and human resources suitable for the scale and technology of production; must have breeding materials suitable for the production variety level of the owner or legal production facility.

Plant seed businesses must meet the following conditions: Must have warehouses and appropriate preservation measures to ensure seed quality; fruit tree, industrial tree, and forestry tree varieties must have seedling gardens; have complete origin traceability records according to regulations; seed bags and seedlings must have QR code stamps to ensure that users and management agencies can check.

According to the draft, organizations and individuals producing and trading in plant varieties must notify the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of information about production and trading establishments for coordination in necessary cases.

The draft clearly states that organizations and individuals producing and trading in plant varieties must compare the prescribed conditions for implementation and be subject to inspection and examination by relevant state management agencies according to the provisions of the Law.

Organizations and individuals producing and trading in plant varieties must notify the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of information about their production and trading establishments for coordination when necessary. Within 15 days of receiving the notification, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development must respond in writing regarding the receipt of the notification and post the notification content on the Department's electronic information portal.

When there is any change related to the conditions and information on production and business activities, organizations and individuals must notify the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for adjustment notice.

According to the draft, plant variety production must comply with TCVN. In case there is no TCVN, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will issue temporary standards.

Regarding seed production by sexual methods, the draft proposes the following regulations: Seed production: according to the three-level system of super-primary seeds, primary seeds and certified seeds; production of plant varieties from multi-line hybrid seeds: produced from seeds of multi-line hybrid seed production gardens, ensuring the correct variety, purity, and freedom from pests and diseases.

When sowing and nursery production of forestry seedlings, seeds must be used from mother trees, seed gardens, seed forests or from imported seeds that meet national standards; for seeds of natural forest trees and specialty trees that do not have a standard seed source, they are allowed to be collected from selected forest stands.

Regarding asexual seed production, according to the draft, for annual crops that are asexually propagated according to variety level or produced in specialized fields or gardens, the correct variety, purity, and pest and disease-free must be ensured; for perennial plants produced by asexual methods, they must be propagated from parent plants or from parent plant gardens that have been selected and recognized; asexual propagation can be done by traditional methods or by applying high technology (invitro, embryo rescue).

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development guides the development of technical processes for the production of plant varieties by asexual methods.

According to Chinhphu.vn