Information on acquisition of seeds and a landing material is provided in article. Recommendations are made how not to make the wrong choice grades.
THAT the CONSUMER SHOULD KNOW UPON PURCHASE of SEEDS OVOShchE-BAKHCHEVYKH And FLOWER CULTURES
To the vegetable grower on a note
Each of us notices that as soon as light day starts to increase, and the sun to warm, in all markets there are trays with multi-colored bags of seeds of flower and vegetable cultures. On pictures huge bright red tomatoes, tiny cucumbers, hard heads of cabbage. And names of grades simply submit the variety.
Whether but everything is so good and cloudless in the market of trade in seeds of vegetable cultures? As far as there corresponds a grade, quality of seeds actually to that information which is specified on attractive packing? How the rights of consumers are protected? How not to be mistaken at a choice of seeds of vegetable and flower cultures for the 6 hundred parts to the summer resident and not to grow up instead of a garden radish a rape, and instead of the promised beautiful flowers, malicious and quarantine weeds?
The great value for receiving the high and guaranteed crops of vegetable cultures has a grade or a hybrid. Let’s begin with that the grade or a hybrid should be zoned, i.e. entered in the State Register of grades of plants suitable for distribution in Ukraine. Such Register is annually published by public service on protection of the rights to grades of plants. Only last year in the Register of grades of plants of Ukraine it was entered 304 new grades and a hybrid of vegetable cultures, more than 50 types of plants. During too time such brand grades of a cucumber are excluded from the Register, as the Phoenix 640, Zhuravlenok, the Stork, a tomato – the Beginner, cabbage – Glory, a garden radish – the French breakfast and some other to which heart of our truck farmers so became attached, in recent years. The exception of grades of the Register says that primary seed farming them isn’t conducted. Seeds of elite are a counterfeit and their only such large offtakers as the remains of parties of a crop of last years can realize JSC Krymsortsemovoshch.
It is necessary to note that seed farming of Nezhinsky cucumbers long ago isn’t conducted, there is no such grade of carrots, as Korotel. Thus, under brand of these grades you too buy a notorious counterfeit.
In too time in the market of seeds there were fine domestic grades of vegetable cultures. It is cabbage belokochanny – Yana, the Face, ekstralezhky grades of onions – Lyubchik, the Amphora, the Globe, a cucumber – Lyalyuk, a tomato – Kremenchug. Trouble only that fine flavoring qualities, technical characteristics of these grades are advertized by nobody. Seeds of grades of vegetable cultures of the Ukrainian selection are forced out foreign though in anything to them don’t concede, and sometimes and surpass them in many indicators.
Every year in the market of seeds appears more and more grades of vegetable and flower cultures of foreign selection. Counters captivated the seeds brought from Holland, France, Poland. All of them are, as a rule, certificated in Ukraine, differ high sowing qualities. But during too time their flavoring qualities strongly concede to domestic grades, they are more exacting to cultivation conditions. So a final choice nevertheless for the consumer.
It is necessary to note what to buy seeds of vegetable and flower cultures, both domestic, and foreign selection, it is necessary only in specialized shops and stalls.
Basic provisions which regulate production, realization and use of seeds and a landing material agricultural, wood, flower and decorative, and also herbs on which state standards are approved, define legal relations between producers and consumers of seeds and a landing material and protect their rights, contain in the Law of Ukraine About seeds and a landing material.
According to the Law of Ukraine About seeds and a landing material all parties of seeds which are realized in the territory of Ukraine, should be certificated. Certificates on seeds of Ukraine stand out the State seed inspections only to the agricultural enterprises entered in the state Register of producers of seeds and a landing material the current year and only if seeds on all indicators correspond to requirements of standards. Unfortunately, these requirements are observed by only large producers and offtakers of seeds.
Despite the regular checks which are carried out by staff of the State seed inspectorates in the sphere of realization of seeds of vegetable and bakhchevy cultures, in our markets still there is a lot of poor-quality sowing material. Only in three months 2007 in the territory of the Crimea it was removed from realization of 148 parties of seeds of vegetable cultures. 41 obligatory instructions are written out, 35 Protocols on administrative violations are made and 35 resolutions for realization of parties of seeds with established order violation are respectively taken out: their realization without quality certificates, with delayed period of validity of the document, low vsxozhestyu.
It would be desirable, that information set forth above was considered by consumers at acquisition of seeds and a landing material.
T. MAJOROVA, chief of the Simferopol regional state seed inspection.