From the winter barley to corn to soybeans – more than 1000 different cultures, the Linz Saatbau has its program. “We are brave, we continue to breed,” says director Josef Fraundorfer. You cannot be put off by seed giants such as Monsanto and Co.
“The four major players on the market have 50 percent of the seeds in their hands – although superiority is so extreme, we grew against the trend,” says Josef Fraundorfer, director of Saatbau Linz.
This year the company is celebrating the 75th anniversary, which has long become an international hub. Depending on the area you have an export share between 50 and 90 percent, the home market in Austria is much too small. “We are an agricultural dwarf,” says Fraundorfer. The Linz seed building has learned to handle pressure. “We can do the same that the great ones can only have more money available,” says the boss of the seed construction. And further: “The competitive pressure is huge, especially in the seed area, is like in the car industry, but we can handle it.”
Because the EU has banned the EU besticide and therefore the Sagut production has become difficult for certain cultures, the European Union is also avoided outside. “Perhaps something in England will also be possible in the future,” Mizes Fraundorfer, who also reveals that you are currently building a subsidiary in Kazakhstan.
The development for domestic agriculture makes him think. “We will lose the level of self -care in agriculture in the next 15 to 20 years,” he says. Fraundorfer mentions climate change as reasons for this, but also weeds, pest cladding and diseases that can hardly be infected: “The delusion of regulation and the prohibition policy results in problems.”
Source: Krone
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