The certificates granted by Indecopi provide exclusivity for marketing. Food security and the fight against climate change are some of the flags of this tuber.
To date, 11 breeder certificates have been granted to new potato plant varieties, as indicated by the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi).
The breeder’s certificate is a type of intellectual property that grants protection to new plant varieties obtained after a research process. Thanks to that, The owner has exclusivity for its commercialization for a certain period of time in the territory where protection has been requested.
In that sense, not only is the investment recovered but the development of new technological alternatives is also promoted for the benefit of small producers, as well as family and regional agriculture.
Of this universe of certificates delivered by the Directorate of Inventions and New Technologies of Indecopi, 6 correspond to the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), 4 to the American snack company Frito Lay North América and the José Faustino Sánchez Carrión National University, in Huacho.
This is how new plant varieties allow consumers to have a greater range of options to choose from, contributing in turn to food security and the fight against climate change, since higher productivity rates are evident with lower water needs. On the other hand, They have better climate tolerance, greater resistance to pests and a smaller area of land for their cultivation.
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Source: Larepublica
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