b'technologies for SAA associations and stakeholders. Participants had the oppor-tunity to share experiences and present new technologies that are coming to the market. APESemillas, as the host organization, presented the seed market in Peru and the tremendous opportunity the country offers for those who plan to produce or multiply different types of seeds. The other national seed associations then had the opportunity to share the activi-ties developed so far in their respective countries and their agendas for the rest of the year.Commitment to the environment is one of SAAs pillars. In this sense ABRASEM (the Brazilian Seed and Seedlings Association) presented a first draft on which it is working to help the Brazilian authorities with the regulations on the disposal of empty bags of treated seeds, and ANAPROSE (Uruguays National Seed Association) gave an update on effluent management and disposal in professional seed treatment facilities in Uruguay.The International Seed Federation The SAA extends its heartfelt appreciation to Oscar de Crdova, General Manager of(ISF) shared an update on the innovation APESemillas, for his devoted years of service to the Peruvian seed industry. group and how the organization interacts with European stakeholders, as well as how they could work as a team and be breeding innovation analyzed the globalticipates in global negotiations with thealigned to take the seed business to the situation of gene editing development,International Seed Federation (ISF) andhighest standards.especially the situation in Europe andother stakeholders throughout the valueContinuing in the area of innovation, Africa, two continents that are showingchain.an update on biologicals was provided a certain openness to the developmentGene editing is an extremely importantby companies, who forecast a three-fold of regulations to allow the use of thesetechnological leap that is already havingmarket growth in 10 years (2017 to 2027).innovative technologies.an impact on the entire seed industry andASA (the Argentine Seed Producers The challenges posed by the imple- is a unique opportunity to seek solutionsAssociation) showed how the growth mentation of the regulations in forceto the problems of agrifood security, com- of professional seed treatment plants in in each country of the Americas wereplementing this with possible mitigationsArgentina can boost the use of legal seed also discussed. This is a key issue as itto the impact of climate change.and increase value capture for genetic allows us to identify differences betweenCommunication issues are of greatinnovation. countries and suggest measures to helpimportance, one of the objectives of thisSeeds Canada and the American Seed facilitate their implementation, seeking toworking group is how to disseminateTrade Association (ASTA) conducted a emulate those that were successful, suchapplied science. With the commitment ofdynamic breakout session on "Why Treat as in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia.the entire industry, the SAA hopes to pro- Seed", which gave participants a great This SAA working group bringsmote the continued development of geneopportunity to go back to basics and together the efforts of the region\'s indus- editing throughout the region. reinforce how important this technology try to promote the development of newOn the other hand, the working groupis and will increasingly become for grow-technologies, not only in the Americas,on seed treatments once again demon- ers at the top of the innovation pyramid.but also at international level, and par- strated the importance of applied seedFinally, the Seed Treatment work-10/ SEEDWORLD.COMLATAM'