At a traditional seed fair in Pereyra Iraola Park, the Buenos Aires agriculture minister anticipated that they will resist the

The terms of the trade and political agreement negotiations between Argentina and the United States are unknown, within the framework of a bailout ordered by Donald Trump for the management of Javier Milei. But one of the speculations that began to be heard is that Washington will demand that the country adopt a new Patent law, much more restrictive than the national rules on intellectual property protection, especially regarding seeds and plant varieties. It is not surprising that Trump is pushing to impose new rules on Argentina in this regard, especially because Argentine soybean producers never paid royalties for the first transgenic soybean that flooded these shores, the RR of the former Monsanto company, now absorbed by Bayer. This was always considered unfair competition by U.S. producers, where the Patent Law includes the possibility of protecting developments in plants. In the context of these speculations, the Minister of Agrarian Development of Axel Kicillof in the ...