Six highlights of the fight against counterfeiting in the seed market this year

Greater Cold has passed the season, and it is the coldest time of the year, but the special action to crack down on the infringement of variety rights and the production and sale of fake and shoddy seeds presents a fiery trend of deployment and mobilization, with the sound of drums singing in unison. On the morning of 21 January, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce held a video conference in Beijing, at which agricultural departments at all levels were required to accurately grasp the current supervision situation of the seed market, raise their understanding of the work of cracking down on seed counterfeiting, persist in strict investigation and crackdown, cure both the symptoms and the root causes, maintain the high-pressure situation of cracking down on counterfeiting, and pay close attention to the implementation of the task in the spirit of nailing, so as to ensure that the order of the seed market is significantly improved.

The video conference sounded like a bugle to continue the special operation. Almost at the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture announced the implementation plan of the 2015 special action to crack down on infringement and the manufacture and sale of fake and shoddy quality, and issued a notice of supervision and inspection of seed production enterprises. In the near future, dozens of supervision groups will go to all parts of the country to guide and assist agricultural administrative departments at all levels to carry out full-coverage inspection of corn, rice and cotton seed production and operation enterprises within their jurisdiction. Conduct full coverage sampling of all varieties of packaging operations of key regulatory enterprises, focus on inspection of production and operation license, variety examination and approval and authorization, production and operation files, seed source and destination, packaging labels, relevant production and sales contracts, variety authenticity and seed quality. So that lawbreakers do not dare to fake, can not fake.

After the enterprise spot check, the special action entered the stage of market inspection. All localities should focus on hybrid corn, hybrid rice and conventional rice seeds to carry out special inspection of the spring market, and focus on wheat seeds to carry out special market inspection in autumn. Special attention should be paid to the seed markets, operating stores and rural sales points where problems have been found in market supervision in recent years, reports from rights protection enterprises and complaints from farmers. For large markets with centralized trading, it is necessary to work together with industrial and commercial departments to find out the registration location of each stall. In areas where the proportion of seeds sold directly to households is high, it is necessary to enter the village to find out the seed clues and find out the source of seeds. The Ministry of Agriculture will supervise and inspect key markets and stores to ensure that there is no dead corner of supervision.

The source of fake and shoddy seeds is in the seed production base. in order to put an end to fake and shoddy seeds from the source, the Ministry of Agriculture requires the agricultural administrative departments at the county level in the national hybrid corn and hybrid rice seed production bases within one month before and after sowing in the base. comprehensive and accurate grasp of seed production location, variety, area, entrusted enterprise qualification and seed production contract and other information, and submit to the provincial competent department The competent departments at the provincial level shall focus on checking the authenticity of varieties before seed harvest and cool sun processing, and on the production license, plant quarantine, destination and quantity of transferred seeds during the seed transportation season. The Ministry of Agriculture listed the bases, plots and production and processing enterprises reported by rights protection enterprises as the focus of supervision for follow-up inspection. To ensure that the national base has a good production order.

The withdrawal of variety cleaning is also the main content of the special action. The national and provincial departments in charge of variety examination and approval will continue to clean up the approved varieties, resolutely withdraw the varieties that have major defects, have not submitted standard samples, and have no production area, and remove the "shell" of the seeds. The agricultural administrative department at the provincial level shall inform the public of the list of varieties that have been withdrawn, and the increase in transparency in the withdrawal of varieties will help to promote the reform of the variety management system.

With regard to the illegal acts found in various inspections, the Ministry of Agriculture requires the agricultural administrative departments of all localities to take the initiative to jointly investigate and deal with the public security and industrial and commercial departments in accordance with the principles of joint inspection and crackdown, department linkage and regional linkage; those that constitute crimes are transferred to public security organs, it is absolutely not allowed to replace punishment with punishment; major and important cases and key cases of social concern are not allowed to be supervised and handled. For units with serious local protection, omission, random acts, and participating in illegal operations, and relevant responsible persons, the competent departments at a higher level should take the initiative to initiate an administrative accountability mechanism with the local government and make public the information on cases closed in a timely manner. The Ministry of Agriculture will make public the information on cases of seed administrative punishment (www.seed.gov.cn), so that illegal records can be queried by the society.

Spot check is to find problems, supervision is to solve problems as soon as possible, and the establishment and improvement of long-term mechanism is the effective guarantee of market order purification. In addition to random inspection of enterprises, markets and bases, removal of problematic varieties, and strict investigation of major and important cases, the Ministry of Agriculture will start the system mechanism and set up a series of platforms, including the establishment of maize and soybean variety DNA identification system, variety SNP identity information database and query platform, increasing variety test types, optimizing the layout of pilot areas, and strengthening the examination and approval of varieties suitable for mechanized operation, light simplification of planting and wide application of multi-resistant varieties. Improve the safety and adaptability of approved varieties, expand the traceability pilot of seed quality, promote the operation of seed e-commerce platform, actively guide enterprises to carry out entrusted management, and establish main channels for seed management and seed purchase by farmers to meet the actual needs of agricultural production.

In 2015, the special anti-counterfeiting campaign still followed the principles of territorial management, linkage of inspection and crackdown, coordination of departments, and treatment of both symptoms and root causes, adhering to the combination of departmental coordination and systematic linkage, the combination of departmental anti-counterfeiting and reporting rights, the combination of listing supervision and discipline inspection and accountability, the combination of investigation and handling of major and important cases with public exposure, the combination of special rectification and the establishment of a long-term mechanism, and the maintenance of a high-handed situation. We will severely crack down on illegal acts such as variety infringement and pushing before trial, and strive to achieve a fundamental improvement in the order of the seed market in about three years. In this regard, I believe that the broad masses of farmers, all law-abiding enterprises, and every consumer are full of expectations.