Inovação em cultivares: panorama das proteções e registros da soja no Brasil

Abstract

Technological innovations applied to seeds has been supported in Brazil. The establishment of legal mechanisms of intellectual protection and rules to commercialize plants and seeds were responsible for the growth of research and development of new crops. The soybean is the main crop produced in the past years in Brazil and, for this reason, the main goal of this research is to show the scenario of innovation technology of soybean seeds, highlighting the protection and records of crops in Brazil. The scope of our analysis reaches the period between 1998 to 2018.The questionnaire survey of quantitative approach and descriptive strategy was collected based on information from CultivarWeb database (in special from SNPC and RNC) from Ministério da Agricultura Pecuária e Abastecimento – MAPA (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply). The secondary data were worked on Excel® Software by using descriptive statistics. The result of this questionnaire survey showed that EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) is the main public institution active in seed innovations and leader with the most important protection certifications and soybean crop records in Brazil. We also observed strong participation from foreign companies in this market, especially the ones that support the protection and record of transgenic soybean crops. We concluded that the number of records of soybean crop commercialization are higher than the protection certification.