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Drew KINDER -
President - American Seed Trade Association |
February 2002 |
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What are the
major forces that drive the seed industry
and its evolution today? |
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Technology, globalization, and
competition in the marketplace are leading to the creation of
better products and services.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the eve
of World War II, outlined America’s Four Freedoms. Today, the
U.S. seed industry is driven by four freedoms:
- Freedom of Access.
Seed companies, large and small, need access to stakeholders
who require association services. Companies with abstract
ideas need access to seed companies capable of turning those
ideas into reality.
- Freedom to Invent.
Inventions must be rewarded so there will money for future
research and development. National policies and regulations
around the world must encourage invention.
- Freedom to Operate.
We need to stand up for science and our freedom to bring
safe products to a worldwide market.
- Freedom to Fail.
The best operators will prosper and the weakest must be
allowed to fail. Regulation must be for the benefit of
consumers, not to protect the status quo.
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