The farmer is now hit by the ‘seed that doesn’t grow’

The abandoned farmer turned to the evidence board of the international seed companies. Thousands of Thracian farmers, who planted the new generation sunflower seeds, named P64LE145 by the international seed company Pioneer, in their fields for the first time this year, were greatly disappointed.

Seed planted as drought resistant saw the heat and dried up before it started. It has been estimated that sunflower seeds, which farmers call ‘the seed that does not grow’, were planted on 160-170 thousand decares of land, and 32 thousand tons of sunflower and 12 thousand tons of oil would be lost because it could not be get the product. It is claimed that the estimated monetary loss to be suffered by the farmer due to the new generation seed will be around 500 million lira. Farmers unable to obtain produce from the field will file a claim for compensation against the company.

REGISTRATION REPORT IS DELIVERED TO THE MINISTRY

The farmer applied to the Central Directorate for Seed Certification and Registration of the Ministry of Agriculture for seeds, and the directorate registered 6 more candidate seeds with this product. In the registration report, it was stated that the yield values ​​such as grain, oil and oil ratio were tested in 13 stages at 9 different locations, mainly in the Thracian region. In the 2-year trial, a report was written that the seed showed above-standard grain and oil yield performance.

However, many farmers who passed the test and bought the seeds sold for the first time in this sowing period and planted them in their fields found that the product withered and died before it began to flower and all the effort was in vain. Company officials made a statement to the farmers that the problem was caused by the drought. The Çorlu Chamber of Agriculture, on the other hand, started attempts to file a lawsuit against the company.

THE LAW SAYS ‘COMMUNITY’

Seed Law No. 5553 establishes that seed companies that make defective seeds for sowing farmers must pay damages. The law establishes that “Reserved due to the fact that their acts are also considered a crime, natural or legal persons who produce, sell, distribute, import or in any other way put on the market defective seeds that cause damage are obliged to repair jointly and severally the damage. ”.