The current record harvest of grains and oilseeds may not be repeated. And the problem is not the climate or the lack of investment, but the potential shortage of seeds, reports a columnist for Expert magazine. At present, the geopolitical situation has shown how deeply the Russian agricultural industry depends on imported technologies. The agro-complex still copes with the sowing of wheat and barley, but at the same time it requires 70–90% of imported seeds of corn, soybeans, sunflower, potatoes, sugar beets, and, as it turned out, Russia does not have its own economically viable varieties of onions and carrots. The main suppliers of seeds to the domestic market were the global concerns Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, BASF. However, since last year, Corteva no longer sells its seeds in the Russian Federation, Syngenta does not supply them due to quarantine in its fields in Europe, and Bayer sent letters to farmers at the end of winter, warning them of possible interruptions in the ...
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