Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Rights of breeders and farmers

Rights of Breeder or his Successor

• A certificate of registration for a variety shall confer an exclusive right on the breeder or his successor, his agent or license to Produce, Sell, market, Distribute and Import or export the variety
Farmers’ Right

• Farmer who has bred or developed a new variety is entitled for protection as a breeder of a variety at free of cost.
  
• Farmer, who is engaged in conservation of genetic resources of land races and wild species entitled for recognition and reward from the National Gene Fund.
  
• Farmers will be entitled to save, use, sow, re-sow, exchange, share, store and sell his farm produced seed of a variety, protected under this act.
  
• However the farmer is not entitled to sell as branded seed of a protected variety.
  
• The pivotal importance of the farmer having the right to sell seed has to be seen in the context of seed production in India, where the farming community is the largest seed producer providing about 80 per cent of the country’s annual requirement.