Another record: 99 varieties of soybeans are being multiplied for the 2025/2026 agricultural campaign

Published 2025년 7월 29일

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Of the 144 varieties of soybeans registered in the National Register of Commercial Cultivars, this year 99 are in multiplication, a record figure that will be available to producers in the 2025/2026 harvest, Dr. Dólia Garcete, executive director of the Association of Seed Producers of Paraguay (Aprosemp), affirmed in Nación Productiva. In this sowing season, the area planted with seeds also reached a record of 90,970 hectares, so a milestone is also projected in the production of bags, which would reach between 1.8 and 2 million.

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During the Sunday agroclassic, an occasion when we analyze the Plan Semillero for the 2025/2026 campaign, Garcete highlighted that in Paraguay there are 144 varieties of soybeans registered in the National Register of Commercial Cultivars (RNCC), of which 99 are currently in multiplication, a figure never before achieved, and among them, some are positioning themselves. "That positioning is not so much due to the development made by their breeders, but rather due to the productivity they present in the hands of the producer," he affirmed. 72% of the certified seeds produced and available in the country correspond to 10 varieties, according to Aprosemp data from the 2023/2024 harvest. The list is led by the M5947IPRO variety with a total weight of 17,973,320 kg with 449,333 bags of 40 kg and represents 25% at the national level. In second place is the NS5933IPRO variety with a total weight of 5,621,560 kg with 140,539 bags and represents 8% at the national level. In third place is ...

Source: Productivacm