Overview
- The government presented a plan to strengthen seed checks by concentrating controls at acopios, processing plants, and ports where grain first arrives.
- INASE, the national seed authority, will authorize private laboratories and arbitral chambers to run varietal identity tests and channel potential cases to the regulator.
- Results will go to registered variety holders, who can file complaints with INASE under existing procedures and seek civil or criminal action under Law 20.247.
- The system will plug into SISA, Argentina’s farm traceability platform, with primary delivery sites required to register so varietal checks link to existing fiscal records.
- Rural groups described the proposal as positive, noting it would apply going forward to new registrations and that adopting new varieties remains a producer choice, while the next step is formal agreements and lab accreditation.