The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organizes a spring seed market inspection: cracking down on illegal activities such as the production and sale of fake and inferior seeds
China News Service, Beijing, March 31 (Reporter Chen Su) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China on the 31st that in order to severely crack down on illegal activities such as infringement of licensing, production and sale of counterfeit seeds, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights in the seed industry to ensure spring production. Since March, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has deployed a nationwide two-month spring crop seed market inspection.
The inspection focuses on the seeds of crops such as corn, rice, soybeans, vegetables, sunflowers, and potato seed potatoes. The inspection of the seed trading market and operating stores is focused on the infringement of seed sets, the pre-examination of the seed, the low quality of the seeds, and the authenticity inconsistency. Issues such as incomplete files and incomplete filing; among them, the main early rice production areas in the south focus on strict seed quality control, the main corn production areas in northeast China focus on inspections of illegal genetically modified corn seeds, and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shandong and other places focus on inspections of imported seeds. The main sunflower-producing regions in the Northwest and Northeast strictly checked the label and authenticity of sunflower seeds.
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has organized 6 working groups to go to Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Guangxi, Gansu and other key areas to conduct open and unannounced visits and spot checks to supervise the implementation of the work and carry out on-site law enforcement.
Each province is required to randomly inspect no less than 20 seed stores, and take seed samples to test the quality of seeds, genetic modification, authenticity and other indicators.
Up to now, supervision and inspections in 4 provinces have been completed, covering 17 counties, 23 seed markets, and 96 operating stores. 120 seed samples were spot-checked, representing 72,400 kilograms.
All 11 problems found in the on-site inspection were ordered to be implemented and reformed.
In the follow-up, the results of seed quality testing will be notified in time, and relevant regions will be instructed to severely investigate and deal with unqualified seeds.
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