Malting barley in Russia will be assessed according to its own quality system

Currently, the Russian brewing industry is 100% dependent on imported seeds. Russia needs to create its own system for assessing malting barley varieties. The head of the National Seed Alliance, Igor Lobach, told reporters about this. According to him, the new system will give impetus to the development of the brewing industry, which is now completely dependent on foreign seeds. As the head of the alliance clarifies, if Russia has its own evaluation system, then supervisory agencies will be able to quickly and accurately assess the quality of new varieties of malting barley that are being developed by domestic breeders. Accordingly, the process of including new seeds in the official register will go faster. And as a result, the industry will have a chance for import substitution. Now in the world there is a fairly strict system for checking malting barley varieties. Foreign scientists conduct tests, check the seeds for quality, and then render their verdict on whether they can be ...