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While the adoption rate of certified seeds has grown, it remains low and despite this, seed sector companies have been making significant investments in recent years in infrastructure and the installation of cutting-edge technology to select the best seeds, with the aim of providing greater effectiveness in the sowing and development of soybean crops, mentioned in Nación Productiva Roberto Lang, president of the Association of Seed Producers of Paraguay (Aprosemp). The average use of certified seeds is 40%, which, in reality, equates to the issuance of labels, so it is estimated that the actual use is somewhat lower.

Of the 144 varieties of soybeans registered in the National Register of Commercial Cultivars, this year 99 are in multiplication, a record figure that will be available to producers in the 2025/2026 harvest, Dr. Dólia Garcete, executive director of the Association of Seed Producers of Paraguay (Aprosemp), affirmed in Nación Productiva. In this sowing season, the area planted with seeds also reached a record of 90,970 hectares, so a milestone is also projected in the production of bags, which would reach between 1.8 and 2 million.

Lindemar Cesca, president of the Association of Soybean, Oilseed and Cereal Producers of Paraguay (APS), highlighted in Productive Nation, an occasion where we discussed the certification process for soybean shipments to the EU, in compliance with Regulation 1115/23, that the union is cooperating with MIC technicians so they understand the soybean production circuit, in order to make the traceability program as least bureaucratic as possible for producers who wish to voluntarily adhere. He expressed that they are aware that two platforms for tracking production have been developed: RETSA (public) and SISE-UE (private).