Yibin Gongxian 2016 Seed Market Supervision and Random Inspection Work Launched

Recently, to ensure the quality and safety of the county's seed market in 2016, the County Seed Management Station, in accordance with the spot-check plan issued by the agricultural authorities, launched supervision and spot-check work on the seed market. As of December 14, 2015, market supervision and spot checks had been launched for 4 townships and 7 seed wholesalers across the county, with 26 seed samples spot-checked, including 12 rice varieties and 14 corn varieties; quality testing of the seeds will follow. In 2016, the county agricultural authorities will continue to apply a seed quality access system to the county's seed market, strictly controlling seed quality, and will resolutely investigate and punish according to law inferior seeds that fail spot-check quality indicators, violate the labeling general rules, or violate the plant quarantine regulations, so as to ensure seed-use safety for farmers throughout the county in 2016.