A Framework for Financing Post-Registration Variety Testing System: A Case Study from Poland
Agriculture is essential to ensuring food security and prosperity around the world. The importance of cultivating agricultural plant species cannot be overestimated. One of the key challenges faced by modern food producers is to increase efficiency while ensuring sustainability and improving resilie...
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| author | Gniewko Niedbała Anna Tratwal Magdalena Piekutowska Tomasz Wojciechowski Jarosław Uglis |
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| description | Agriculture is essential to ensuring food security and prosperity around the world. The importance of cultivating agricultural plant species cannot be overestimated. One of the key challenges faced by modern food producers is to increase efficiency while ensuring sustainability and improving resilience to unfavorable environmental conditions brought about by ongoing climate change. To meet these challenges, it is vital to continue breeding work and to select plant varieties best adapted to local farming conditions. Undoubtedly, future yield increases will only be achievable by way of genetic improvement. In turn, crop-variety recommendations should rely on the results of properly designed post-registration variety testing (PRVT, in polish PDO), followed up by specific variety recommendations for growers. In this article, we attempt to fill a gap in the international literature regarding post-registration variety testing. We present PRVT as a unique scheme that is key to selecting agricultural plant varieties recommended for cultivation, with due account taken of Poland’s specific farming conditions. Every year, over 1000 field cultivar tests are carried out as part of PRVT. The results of these tests constitute reliable, objective source material for farmers and help them make choices regarding the most valuable varieties for cultivation that are also best adapted to local farming conditions. Among the financial benefits of selecting the right crop varieties for agriculture are lower cultivation costs, including reduced fertilizer and pesticide spending, and higher income generated by larger yields. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aa758a23709e45a7b43312a0ffbd42a72023-11-23T18:20:02ZengMDPI AGAgronomy2073-43952022-01-0112232510.3390/agronomy12020325A Framework for Financing Post-Registration Variety Testing System: A Case Study from PolandGniewko Niedbała0Anna Tratwal1Magdalena Piekutowska2Tomasz Wojciechowski3Jarosław Uglis4Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 50, 60-627 Poznan, PolandDepartment of Monitoring and Signalling of Agrophages, Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute, Władysława Węgorka 20, 60-318 Poznan, PolandDepartment of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Institute of Biology and Earth Sciences, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Partyzantów 27, 76-200 Slupsk, PolandDepartment of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 50, 60-627 Poznan, PolandDepartment of Law and Enterprise Management in Agribusiness, Faculty of Economics, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznan, PolandAgriculture is essential to ensuring food security and prosperity around the world. The importance of cultivating agricultural plant species cannot be overestimated. One of the key challenges faced by modern food producers is to increase efficiency while ensuring sustainability and improving resilience to unfavorable environmental conditions brought about by ongoing climate change. To meet these challenges, it is vital to continue breeding work and to select plant varieties best adapted to local farming conditions. Undoubtedly, future yield increases will only be achievable by way of genetic improvement. In turn, crop-variety recommendations should rely on the results of properly designed post-registration variety testing (PRVT, in polish PDO), followed up by specific variety recommendations for growers. In this article, we attempt to fill a gap in the international literature regarding post-registration variety testing. We present PRVT as a unique scheme that is key to selecting agricultural plant varieties recommended for cultivation, with due account taken of Poland’s specific farming conditions. Every year, over 1000 field cultivar tests are carried out as part of PRVT. The results of these tests constitute reliable, objective source material for farmers and help them make choices regarding the most valuable varieties for cultivation that are also best adapted to local farming conditions. Among the financial benefits of selecting the right crop varieties for agriculture are lower cultivation costs, including reduced fertilizer and pesticide spending, and higher income generated by larger yields.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/2/325post-registration variety testingPRVTPDOsources of financingvariety evaluationplant breeding |
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| title | A Framework for Financing Post-Registration Variety Testing System: A Case Study from Poland |
| title_full | A Framework for Financing Post-Registration Variety Testing System: A Case Study from Poland |
| title_fullStr | A Framework for Financing Post-Registration Variety Testing System: A Case Study from Poland |
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| title_short | A Framework for Financing Post-Registration Variety Testing System: A Case Study from Poland |
| title_sort | framework for financing post registration variety testing system a case study from poland |
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