How to improve organic cereal seed availability in Hungary (LIVESEED Practice Abstract)

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Practical recommendations - For a better cooperation and efficiency, regular meeting of the organic seed working group is suggested. Important steps: 1) Restructure the national organic seed database to have a user-friendly and informative (incl. variety recommendations) service for farmers. 2) Organic seed producers and retailers keep the database up-to-date and retain seed lots for domestic market. 3) Circulating and propagandizing the new database by the Hungarian Seed Association and the certification bodies. 4) Post-registration performance trials help the variety recommendation: one of the state’s variety testing mnurseries is converted to organic (2020). Further locations are included through a cooperation with organic farmers operating in the proximity of other state nurseries, in a way that plots are managed with the machinery of the authority. Certain breeding institutions also host these trials to reach the sufficient number of sites.