Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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AP fixes royalty for Monsanto cotton seed
K V Kurmanath The Andhra Pradesh Government has fixed the trait value for BG II (Bollgard-II) at Rs 90 and for BG-I (Bollgard-I) at Rs 50.
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Stealing seeds
April.30 : There is a draft Seeds Bill in Parliament which could be enacted any day now. The new Seeds Bill, drafted originally in 2004, will replace the old Seed Act of 1966 which was meant to set standards for trading in seed. The conditions of seed production have undergone a sea change in the last 25 years, with a growing presence of the seed industry.
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Court asks AP to look into Bt cotton seed pricing
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to look into the issues relating to pricing of Bt cotton seeds. Mr Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy passed the order while dealing with a petition filed by Mr Kolli Nageswara Rao, a leader of the AP Rythu Sangam, on behalf of the farming community.
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GO on supply of seeds goes unnoticed
A Satish
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Demand for hybrid coconut seedlings going up in Thanjavur
G. Srinivasan Crossing for the seedlings done manually every day at two farms Hand picked:A labourer spraying pollen grains on flowers of a coconut tree in the Agricultural Research Centre in Pattukottai on Tuesday.
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Seeds Bill would harm millions of farmers
BHUBANESWAR: Fearing that the proposed Seeds Bill, 2004, if enacted, would harm millions of small and medium farmers across the country and only benefit the multi-national companies, city-based United Coalition Against Genetic Engineering (Uncage) today said that all stakeholders in agriculture and environment sectors must come forward to oppose the move.
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Cultivate maize in tourist areas to get better prices
Expressing concern over lack of transfer of technology from laboratories to field, Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir today said he had directed the Agriculture Extension Department to cultivate maize in the irrigated and tourism significant areas like Pahalgam, Sonmarg, Tangmarg and Shopian.
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Kerala moots law to ban GM crops
The Kerala Government is considering a law to ban genetically modified crops (GM) in order to ensure seed quality and protect traditionally cultivated crops in the State. A Bill in this regard is likely to be presented in the Assembly in its next session.
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Monsanto's letter to seed manufacturers triggers a row
Wants farmers to let cattle graze on Bt cotton fields. K.V. Kurmanath A letter from Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (India) Limited to seed manufacturers, advising them to ask farmers to let the cattle graze on Bt cotton fields, has triggered a row in the ongoing debate on Bt cotton. Ahead of the kharif season sales, the company said the grazing should be allowed at the end of the crop season.
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Not a nice trait to have
Monsanto is back in the courts on the issue of royalty or trait fees it charges for its genetically modified Bt cotton