MODERN BREEDING AND SEED PRODUCTION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY

DOI 10.32651/238-64

Issue № 8, 2023, article № 10, pages 64-69

Section: Agrofood market

Language: Russian

Original language title: СОВРЕМЕННАЯ СЕЛЕКЦИЯ И СЕМЕНОВОДСТВО В ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОМ СЕКТОРЕ ЭКОНОМИКИ

Keywords: BREEDING, SEED PRODUCTION, FOOD SECURITY, AGRICULTURAL CROPS

Abstract: Ensuring the country's food security is primarily the breeding of new varieties and hybrids of agricultural crops that are most dependent on the foreign market. After all, the variety is a key factor of economic growth in agricultural production, and breeding and seed production occupy the main positions. Russian breeding science enjoys well-deserved recognition and authority all over the world. The competitiveness of domestic varieties over foreign ones is convincingly proved by leguminous and cereal crops. Breeding, however, cannot be effective without replicating seeds of new varieties, which is why, first of all, an organized seed production system is necessary. As of the second half of 2023, according to the register of seed farms of the Russian Federation, their number is 940, which is 25.2% more than in 2020, but 8.2% less than in 2017. In order to improve the system of breeding and seed production, we consider it expedient to radically, with the help of the state, change the situation with the renewal of the material and technical base - first of all, scientific institutions.

Authors: Polukhin Andrei Aleksandrovich, Sidorenko Vladimir Sergeevich, Panarina Veronika Igorevna