Dr. Bernard Le Buanec - International Seed Federation

September 2002

How should the seed industry face these issues ?
The seed industry is very diverse in terms of size of the companies, their activities, their culture, and at a given point of time they may perceive their own interest as different from the general interest. I know that it is a difficult issue but today the challenges are global and if we want to succeed we need to be united.

Arrogance from one part or another of the world has to be absolutely avoided. The experience we have got in FIS/ASSINSEL shows that when you defend general interests you also defend particular ones. On the contrary, when you try and defend particular interests, you fail in promoting general ones, to the detriment of the whole industry.

 

 

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