Argentina: Northern chickpea producers on alert over INASE decision

(NAP) The authorities of the Inase de facto banned the use of chickpea seeds for their own use through a methodology that angered the producers of that legume. They will set up a working group with all the actors in the chain. After learning of the notification from the INASE, they de facto banned the use of chickpea seeds for their own use through a methodology that angered the producers of that legume, said Valor Agro. In this regard, Gonzálo Blasco, president of APRONOR (Association of Producers of the North), questioned the official decision and expressed that “there is a strong lobby of companies in the private sector that are against the use of seeds that we producers make and they put pressure on us.” “Inase issues resolutions like this one on chickpeas that go against their own use and against a crop that has been grown for many years here in the north, which producers already declare to be a northern variety, but in reality it is not a variety, they are populations that ...