Genetics in plants: Production clubs

08/01/2015

We are in a global reality of revolutionary changes in many aspects of the lives of people and societies. Food is one of them, and within this is fruit growing and natural products.

The variety of supply in the field of agrofrutícolas food goes through the systematic application of technology and science to the different phases of production, from the treatment of soils where the plants will germinate, to the packaging of the fruit and the transport of them.

Specifically, in the fruit culture has been strongly applied genetic science developing experiences that have achieved surprising results in the qualities of adaptation, growth, yield and production of plants.

As a result, larger, more durable fruits have been achieved, with greater flavor, and with characteristics more in keeping with the great food demand that crosses the world.

This development has not been free of controversy, due to the doubts that some sectors of society have expressed regarding the healthy qualities of food, but at present no one doubts that the application of science and technology to fruit production has been a substantive contribution in terms of quantity and quality of the products, in addition to expanding the variety of the offer.

In the recent past these discoveries belonged to the world, to society. If someone discovered something or developed a successful experiment, almost immediately it was put at the service of the community for its massive use.

Currently, with the market economy, the genetic discovery belongs to those who discovered it, it is from who produced it or developed it, so it is he who sets the conditions of use or commercialization. We are in the world of patents and certifications.

Case New Zealand

But not only this, but today a new mode of commercial relationship is born, based on the application of knowledge, science and technology: that of "commercial clubs", which is much more profitable than that of patents and royalties.

The reality of patents, in the case of plants, is not the same as that of the industrial world, since these last only fifteen or eighteen years, so the patent royalty is not an attractive business.

In this perspective, the collaboration, associativity and feedback that the production club implies is much more profitable for both parties, both for the researcher or owner of the knock how, and for those who use this knowledge.

The New Zealanders, who are the owners of the concept of genetic improvement, made the kiwi fruit globally consumed and greatly improved in its qualities. Let's not forget that the kiwi is a plant of Chinese origin, but nobody disputes that the real intellectual owners of the production and commercialization of the kiwi are the New Zealanders. And they do not charge a patent or royalty, which is the alternative that others use when they have applied research and genetic development in a product. They invite to form production clubs to anyone who wants to produce some of their genetically improved products. It is an invitation to an association of interests where both parties gain from the production and marketing of their products.

Source: Blueberrieschile.cl