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Sébastien Abis, director of the DEMETER association and a research scientist at IRIS - The geopolitics of global food security and agriculture is well illustrated by corn, which belongs to cereals.

Sébastien Abis, director of the DEMETER association and a research scientist at IRIS - I deal with geopolitics in the field of agriculture and food security in the world. A very important topic, because the population of our planet has increased by 2 billion in 20 years.

Sébastien Abis, director of the DEMETER association and a research scientist at IRIS - The European Union is a great agricultural power, a power in the production of cereals, because Europe is strong thanks to its 27 Member States and has been able to develop agricultural production in quantitative terms, while ensuring high quality agriculture and food, with a large diversity and complementarity of member countries.

Professor Piotr Szulc, Poznań University of Life Sciences (Poland) - Maize has a high yield potential. To fully use its potential, maize needs about 25-40 kg of nitrogen, 12-16 kg of phosphorus, and about 30-40 kg of potassium per one ton of dry grain produced, including the yield of vegetative biomass.

Pierre Guillaumin, economics expert - European economics and the maize seed market.

Professor Paweł Bereś, Ph.D. Eng., Institute of Plant Protection, National Research Institute (Poznan, Poland) - Maize, as everyone probably knows, is a tropical crop that we grow in Europe.

Professor Paweł Bereś, Ph.D. Eng., Institute of Plant Protection, National Research Institute (Poznan, Poland) - Western corn rootworm, also known as corn rootworm for short, is an increasingly dangerous pest in maize crops, both in Europe and worldwide.

Professor Paweł Bereś, Ph.D. Eng., Institute of Plant Protection, National Research Institute (Poznan, Poland) - Recently, there have been more and more inquiries related to the European Green Deal and, among other things, the question arises whether biological protection is able to completely replace chemical protection.

Valérie Brochet Director of FNPSMS - By using maize seeds produced in the European Union, all farmers who use them, both producers of grain maize and producers of silage maize, gain a better guarantee.