ORGANIZATION OF PASTURE SEED PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL

DANILO BRACINI

 

This work mentions some of the main innovators aspects of the actual legislation on seed and seedling, in wich the atributions of the organisms and institutions involved in the organization of the production and supervision of the seed and seedling, are emphasized. It tries to relate the main requirements needed for the viability of a State Program on Production of seed and seedling. It also refers to the dimension of the Project on Production Supervision, coordinated, at a national level, by the Coordenation of seed and seedling, National Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil as weel as to the funds allocated by the Ministry of Agriculture for the period of 79/80 and the amount of these resources to the referred project for 1981. Finally, this work enrolls data about national production of seed for pasture in the year of 78/79, in six Federation Unities where there is available information on the quantity of imported seeds in the same year, and concludes relating some of the main causes of the low utilization of improved seeds for pastures in this country, and presents suggestions in order to decrease the problem.



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