Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act 2001 the first of its kind in granting intellectual property rights not only to the plant breeders but also to the farmers. Discuss (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
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KEY POINTS
· PPV&FR Act in defence of the farmers, a farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under this Act, provided that the farmer shall not be entitled to sell branded seed of a variety protected under this Act.
· The Act was tailored to give farmers free access to seeds.
· National Gene Bank for conserving seeds of registered varieties and field gene banks have been established at State Agricultural Universities for conserving genes of perennial crops.
· National Gene Fund constituted by Government of India, the fund is also utilised for supporting the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources including in-situ and ex-situ collections.
· PPV&FR Act, 2001 grants the proprietary ownership of the variety to the plant breeders and farmers for their varieties.
· The act also gives plant breeders, intellectual property rights, which offers protection to their patent in India. So Pepsico company sued the farmers in Gujarat for violating their rights.
· But subsequently case was withdrawn as farmers were not selling the FC-5 potato variety under their brand name, moreover the act protects farmers’ rights too as long as they don’t seel the plant variety under the brand name.
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