Preconditions of seeds’ production enhancement: A case study

Abstract

The article reveals the current state of selection and seed production of grain crops in the Russian Federation. There were considered the barriers of the development of the subsector in the conditions when one of the priorities is the creation of export-oriented grain production, which is not possible without well-developed plant breeding and seed production. There were revealed the features of selection and seed production of grain crops in modern conditions: underfunding of organizations engaged in selection, lack of breeding laboratories in the field of genetic technologies, imperfection of legislation in the country, low level of material and technical support of seed production, illegal seed trafficking, lack of financial opportunities of agricultural producers to conduct timely the variety exchange and variety renewal. There were proposed the measures to improve the system of state regulation in the field of selection and seed production of grain crops to solve these problems.