Unwarranted obstacle to domestic seed

Unwarranted obstacle to domestic seed
Date: 21.6.2019 12:00

With the changing law, while domestic seed was taken to the class of drawbacks, fines and additional loads were brought...

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The decline in agriculture and animal husbandry due to wrong policies continues unabated. Farmers will face 20 thousand Turkish Liras fine different obligations those who buy the seeds they grow themselves in Anatolia, again hard in front of their eyes wrong agricultural policies carried out in Turkey.
 
Due to the wrong policies of the government, the decline in agriculture and animal husbandry continues unabated. Finally Bartin Galle Market of selling their own grain farmers raised 20 thousand punishment is threatened, wrong agricultural policies carried out in Turkey in front of his eyes hard again. With the Seed Law No. 5553, which was updated by the government in September last year, certification was made compulsory for seed cultivation and the way for our country to become dependent on seed was opened. Law No. 5553, which imposes many fees under the name of compulsory certification for farmers who want to grow seeds, makes farmers almost doomed to imported hybrid seeds.
 
Mandatory certification fees and penalties
 
With the Seed Law No. 5553, which was updated in September last year, certification was made compulsory in seed growing and the way for our country to become dependent on seed was opened. Law No. 5553, which imposes many fees under the name of compulsory certification for farmers who want to grow seeds, makes farmers almost doomed to imported hybrid seeds.
 
Law No. 5553 opens additional costs for farmers
 
The farmer, who cannot make a profit from the cost of agricultural machinery, diesel prices and other expenses, is reintroduced under the name of seed certification under the Law No. 5553. Agricultural authorities, Seed Law, which attracts the reaction of cooperatives and producers in Turkey's largest display of wrong agricultural policy. In Article 9 of the Seed Law No. 5553, many wages are deducted from farmers who want to make seed certification. Here are the deductions in Article 9; Application examination fee, registration fee, production permit fee, standard seed registration fee, genetic resources registration fee, certification services fee, field checks fee, laboratory checks fee, certification fee, label fee, publication fees, other fees.
 
According to the Seed Law No. 5553, which was updated in September of last year, a large amount of fines are imposed on farmers who do not have seed certification and sell the seeds they grow. In fact, the Seed Law, enacted to protect the seed species in our country, obliges farmers to use hybrid seeds through the implementation of false seed policies. The government increases the costs of the farmers by obliging seed certification instead of supporting the farmers. In the 12th article of Seed Law No. 5553, the fines of 10 thousand TL to 20 thousand TL are imposed on the farmers who cannot undertake the certification costs and sell and grow seeds. All crops in the hands of farmers who are understood to have sold seeds without certification are also destroyed.
 
Here are the fees charged to the farmer:
 
* Application examination fee,
 
* Registration fee, production permit fee,
 
* Standard seed registration fee,
 
* Genetic resources registration fee,
 
* Certification services fee,
 
* Field controls fee,
 
* Laboratory checks fee,
 
* Certification fee,
 
* Label fee,
 
* Publication fees,
 
* Other fees.

YEREL HABERLER

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