Federal Association of German Plant Breeders
| Federal Association of German Plant Breeders (BDP) |
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| purpose | Society for Plant Breeding |
| Chair: | Stephanie Franck |
| Establishment date: | 1907 |
| Seat : | Bonn |
| Website: | www.bdp-online.de |
The Federal Association of German Plant Breeders (BDP) is the professional interest group for private plant breeding companies in Germany, based in Bonn. The association emerged from the seed department of the German Agricultural Society (DLG), which represented the interests of plant breeders until 1907.
The BDP is a private organization that represents the interests of around 130 mostly medium-sized seed breeding companies - including the private East German seed breeding companies since 1990. Around 100 companies are active in the breeding of agricultural crops , and there are a further 30 horticultural plant breeding companies that mainly breed vegetables and ornamental plants .
In addition to many smaller companies, a number of large corporations in the seed industry are members of the BDP, including Bayer CropScience AG, DLF-Trifolium , KWS Saat , Maribo , Monsanto Agrar Deutschland GmbH, Syngenta Cereals and Syngenta Seeds GmbH.
The private German plant breeding companies act as competitors to one another, but there is a consensus on fundamental issues, which the association represents internally and externally. His most important tasks include the development of the framework conditions for the sale of seeds , the procedural guidelines for entry in the list of varieties and, in particular, the protection of new varieties of plants .
The other tasks of the BDP also include:
- Formation of opinion among the plant breeding companies
- Intellectual property protection
- Promotion of new technologies in breeding
- Organization of research and variety development
- Representation of the interests of plant breeding companies through intensive contact with politics ( Bundestag , federal ministries), authorities ( e.g. Bundessortenamt ) and business (agriculture, trade, seed production companies) as well as specific interest groups
- Press and public relations