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May 22, 2011 in liwenmapu on Food, GMOs, Agriculture, Food Security +, Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Politics and +.
Ecoportal.net, May 22, 2011. The seed, the source of life, the embodiment of our biological and cultural diversity, the link between past and future evolution, the common property of the past, present and future of farming communities that have been seed breeders, today is stolen from farmers and sold back to us as "seeds of ownership." Owned by US corporations Monsanto headquarters.
Under pressure from the Prime Minister (India?), Several states are signing MOUs with seed corporations privatization of our rich and diverse genetic inheritance. For example, the government of Rajasthan has signed seven MOUs with Monsanto, Advanta, DCM Shriram, Kanchan Jyoti Industries Agro, PHI Seeds SA. Ltd, Seeds JK Agri Genetics and Krishidhan.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Rajasthan with Monsanto, for example, focuses on corn, cotton and vegetables (peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, cucumber, cauliflower and watermelon). Monsanto controls the cotton seed market in India and worldwide. Monsanto also controls 97 percent of the corn market worldwide and 63.5 percent of the market of genetically modified (GM) cotton. DuPont, in fact, had to initiate an antitrust inter scaldes investigation in the US due to the growth of monopoly inter scaldes Monsanto seeds.
Sixty seed companies in India have licensing agreements with Monsanto, which holds the copyright on Bt cotton. In addition, Monsanto has cross-licensing agreements with BASF, Bayer, DuPont, inter scaldes Syngenta and Dow to share it patented. Giant corporations seeds are not competing with each other. They are competing with farmers and farmers over control of seed supply. And indeed, monopolies inter scaldes over seeds are being established through mergers and cross-licensing agreements.
Monsanto, which controls 95 percent of the market, cottonseed, has pushed the price of seeds than 7 kg to 3600 kg, with royalty payments almost inter scaldes half. 1 billion rupees a year is extracted as rights of Indian farmers of Andhra Pradesh, which claimed the monopoly and restrictive trade practices.
The good seed is ecologically incomplete and broke into two levels: First, do not play, whereas, by definition, the seed is a regenerative resource. Genetic resources thus passed through, being a renewable resource to a non-renewable inter scaldes resource technology. Secondly, does not produce by itself, but needs the help of purchased inputs. And as the seed and chemical companies merge, the dependence of inputs will increase.
The failure inter scaldes of hybrid sunflower hybrid maize Karnataka and Bihar has cost hundreds of poor farmers tens of millions of rupees. No liability clauses in the memoranda of understanding to ensure the rights of farmers and protecting the lack of seeds.
The seeds will be used to essentially derived varieties of corporations inter scaldes like Monsanto are originally farmers' varieties. LA Law Farmers' Rights and Plant Genetic Resources is a law to protect the rights of farmers, but nothing is recognized in the memoranda of understanding on the protection and guarantee the rights of farmers. Therefore, they are in violation of the law of Farmers' Rights.
The MOUs are partial and biased in favor of intellectual property rights of companies. The MOU Monsanto says: "The tools owned by Monsanto, techniques, technology, inter scaldes know-how and intellectual property inter scaldes rights with respect to crops remain the property of Monsanto, despite using any of the activities described under the Memorandum inter scaldes of Understanding ". So the question here is not the technology but the monopoly of seeds.
Rajasthan is an ecologically fragile area. Their farmers are already vulnerable. It is a crime increase their vulnerability to allow companies to steal their genetic wealth and then sell paten
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