Farmers' variety in the context of Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001.

摘要

It is clear that FV is a product of farmers having a long tradition, evolved in their own fields from a non-descriptive heterogeneous land race. The yardstick of DUS for FV needs a fresh look, so that a pragmatic procedure to register the FV under the PPV&FR Act, 2001 can be developed. For crops where within-field variations are high and behave as a population or land race, fresh research efforts are necessary to purify them. Considerable research is necessary to understand the farmers' perception of a variety, and the reasoning behind why they permit certain degree of floating variation in the FVs. It is also intriguing as to why consumers have all along been patronizing products with a certain degree of variability.