Jean-Louis DUVAL - CEO - JL Duval Conseil, France

March 2002

How do recent developments in the global seed industry impact seed companies and the seed trade in your country ?
The "Starlink episode" and the issue of adventitious presence of GMOs non-deregulated in Europe have dramatically slowed down the export of commercial seed from the US to Europe, principally in hybrid corn, and also some canola from Canada.

This had increased the production in France and other EU countries at a time when we forecast a strong competition with the Eastern European Countries.

The cost of quality control has exploded but the price of seed has not followed.

 


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