Seeds and Seedlings for the Future
"Seeds" and "seedlings" are fundamental elements of agriculture, and the development of high quality seeds and seedlings and securing of their production and distribution are essential in the development of Japanese agriculture.
The Center for Seeds and Seedlings, NARO (NCSS) is the comprehensive institution on the management for seeds and seedlings in Japan. We conduct the following duties with the purpose of implementing adequate protection for plant variety and ensuring of distribution of quality seeds and seedlings.
1. DUS growing test and facilitation of plant variety protection (PVP) on the Plant Variety Protection and Seed Act
2. Inspection to secure the distribution for seeds and seedlings of healthy agricultural crops
3. Production and distribution of foundation seeds of potato and sugarcane
We constantly make efforts to improve the quality and the content of our duties for meeting the demand from the public sufficiently. In addition, we conduct the international technical cooperation aggressively under the cooperation with the UPOV and the East Asia Plant Variety Protection Forum, for Asian countries which are developing the establishment of the system of PVP and seed inspection.
