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38% of the imported volume of foreign seeds in the Kursk and Oryol regions of Russia is corn

Maize (Corn) Seed
Russia
Published Mar 5, 2022

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One large shipment of French corn seeds was returned to the sender Since the beginning of 2022, employees of the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Oryol and Kursk regions have controlled 40 batches (Oryol region - 15 batches, Kursk region - 25 batches) of seeds of various agricultural crops with a total weight of 313.6 tons (Oryol region - 273.2 tons, Kursk region - 40.4 tons), imported from France, Germany, India, China, Thailand, Hungary, Czech Republic, Korea, Austria, Italy, Belarus and 443.7 thousand pieces of seedlings of berry crops from Italy. 38% of the imported volume was corn seeds, 34% - barley seeds, 13% - pea seeds, 15% - vegetable seeds. As part of the implementation of quarantine phytosanitary control, officials of the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration in relation to each batch of seed material checked the shipping documents and documents confirming the varietal and sowing qualities. During the documentary control, 7 cases of violation of the legislation in the field of plant quarantine were revealed when importing corn seeds (60.446 tons) into the territory of the Russian Federation, coming from the Republic of Austria (the origin of the Republic of France) to SAATBAU RUS LLC (Krasnodar).

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One large shipment of French corn seeds was returned to sender Since the beginning of 2022, employees of the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Oryol and Kursk regions have controlled 40 batches (Oryol region - 15 batches, Kursk region - 25 batches) of seeds of various crops with a total weight of 313.6 tons (Oryol region - 273.2 tons, Kursk region - 40.4 tons) imported from France, Germany, India, China, Thailand, Hungary, Czech Republic, Korea, Austria, Italy, Belarus and 443.7 thousand pieces of seedlings of berry crops from Italy. 38% of the imported volume was corn seeds, 34% - barley seeds, 13% - pea seeds, 15% - vegetable seeds. As part of the implementation of quarantine phytosanitary control, officials of the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration in relation to each batch of seed material checked the shipping documents and documents confirming the varietal and sowing qualities. In the course of documentary control, 7 cases of violation of the legislation in the field of ...
Source: Agroxxi
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