Role
The Role of SASA is as follows:
- Ensuring the quality of seeds and tubers for planting, and new crop varieties;
- Keeping field and horticultural crops free of damaging diseases;
- Keeping serious pests of plants out of Scotland;
- Acting as the Scottish Executive's Inspectorate of genetically-modified crops;
- Developing new and more sensitive diagnostic tests for pests and diseases;
- Preserving and maintaining a wide range of historic, heritage and other varieties of potatoes, cereals, peas and brassicas;
- Monitoring the pesticide load in the national diet, and the pattern of use of pesticides in Scotland;
- Protecting wildlife against deliberate or accidental poisoning
- Understanding the ecology of vertebrate species that conflict with agriculture (e.g. rabbits, foxes, geese).
Read more about this topic: Scottish Agricultural Science Agency
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