Who is protected?

The Lok Sabha passed Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Bill with complete amendments on August 9, 2001, twenty months after it was first moved in the Parliament. But experts are doubtful about the rights and protection that the bill seeks to provide the Indian farmers

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Published: Saturday 15 September 2001

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