Induction slides

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Seed Certification and the Future Mark
HollandSeed Potatoes Advisory Group
Vegetable Industry Conference May 2009
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A Short History of the National Standard

• Pre 2001 5 independent state schemes
• 2001 National standard agreed
• Minimum set of crop and tuber standards
• Disease, defects, trueness to type
• Marketing benefits

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Negotiation potato style
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Consensus
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Seed Potatoes Advisory Group

• Governed by APIC now AUSVEG
• Maintain and develop the Standard
• Representative of each scheme
• Meet in a different seed production area annually
• Effective, cooperative group
• How to employ emerging diagnostic and
  communication capabilities?

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Issue 1 Service Provider and Database

• One service provider
• Reduce duplication
• Dedicated management and administration
• Standardisation of procedures and stationary
• Can afford better infrastructure

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Issue 1 Service Provider and Database (cont)

• Web enabled database (EDDIE)
• Better communication
• On-line crop and tuber input
• Reduce processing time
• Instant verification
• Instant print out of seed analysis statements
• More efficient service provision

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Issue 2 Quality Assurance

• Already in place for tuber inspections
• Capitalise on diagnostic test advances
• Improved virus control
• On farm test strips
• Quantitative tuber tests
• Improved cultivar identity
• Predictive tests for soil borne disease
• Improved service provider efficiency

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Strip test and punctured leaf
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Issue 3 Sale by Description

• 20 tolerances for diseases and defect
• One fault rejects seed lot
• Measure and report defect and disease levels
• A standard is not appropriate for every situation
• Support via on-line reference photos
• Buyers decide

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Cuts
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Jonno Seeds Pty. Ltd.Certified Potato
Seed Lot Quality Statement
Seed Lot Code AUS/W 15 IC 001
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Conclusion

• Three possible futures for consideration
• A national service provider
• A quality assurance approach
• Sale by description
• A more flexible, effective and efficient
• seed potato certification system
• to benefit the Australian potato industry