US EditionArgentine Seed Association Supports UPOV 91 as a Strategic Step for Competitiveness
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SAN NICOLÁS.- In the midst of the debate over Argentina's possible accession to the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants in its version Upov-91, which gives more protection to the seed industry in matters of intellectual property, leaders of the Liaison Board presented to the Government a proposal to advance new seed legislation that modernises the current system, but without abandoning the current framework of the U…
The national government, through the Secretary of Agriculture, Sergio Iraeta, agreed to enable a working table or negotiating body to reformulate the current legislation on intellectual property in seeds, which will take part of the proposals of agricultural producers. The primary sector, which is usually accused of avoiding the payment of royalties to breeders of new varieties, prepared a document that was raised to the official on Tuesday in t…
Buenos Aires, 10 March (NA) – The Secretary of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, Alejandro Cacace, revived the debate on intellectual property in seeds by warning that the lack of an effective system of protection of innovation impacts Argentine agricultural productivity, especially in soybeans. By social networks, the official pointed out that in the last twenty years the average yield of soybeans in Argentina remained practically s…
The opening of a new edition of Expoagro, in its celebration for the 20 years of the largest open-air exhibition in the Argentine countryside, brought together the main political leaders linked to the sector. There, the former president, Mauricio Macri, and the governor of Santa Fe Maximiliano Pullaro, came together. Both of them sat next to each other and talked at all times. There was even harmony in the choice of shoes and preference for shoe…
Argentine Seed Association Supports UPOV 91 as a Strategic Step for Competitiveness
The Argentine Seed Association (ASA) welcomed and strongly supported the decision of the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, to make the modernization of the plant intellectual property regime a strategic priority of the State. The impetus for Argentina’s accession to the 1991 Act of UPOV was described as a decisive step to reverse a process that, for decades, had been eroding the competitiveness and productivity of Argentine agriculture due …
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