{"id":221055,"date":"2005-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-ensure-availability-of-bt-cotton-seeds-to-the-farmers-at-on-2-august-2005"},"modified":"2017-12-08T02:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:21:35","slug":"need-to-ensure-availability-of-bt-cotton-seeds-to-the-farmers-at-on-2-august-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-ensure-availability-of-bt-cotton-seeds-to-the-farmers-at-on-2-august-2005","title":{"rendered":"Need To Ensure Availability Of Bt. Cotton Seeds To The Farmers At &#8230; on 2 August, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Need To Ensure Availability Of Bt. Cotton Seeds To The Farmers At &#8230; on 2 August, 2005<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>                                          an&gt; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title\">Title<\/a>:  Need to ensure availability of Bt. Cotton seeds to the farmers at affordable prices. \u2013 Laid.   <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRIMATI%C2%A0%20D.%20PURANDESWARI%20\">SHRIMATI\u00a0 D. PURANDESWARI <\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=BAPATLA\">BAPATLA<\/a>): I bring to your notice the exploitation of our poor farmers by the very high sale price fixed by M\/s Monsanto Company enjoying exclusive monopoly for providing technology to the farmers for Bt. Cotton seeds.\u00a0 The company is charging through seed companies a royalty for technology by giving it is different name because under the Indian law genes are not patentable.\u00a0 Each farmer has to pay about Rs. 1800\/- for a 450\/- gram pack of seeds, which costs only Rs. 400\/- The balance is taken as \u2018trait\u2019 value.\u00a0 The licensee company adds it to be seed cost and collects the total costs from the farmers.\u00a0 The company has been banned in Andhra Pradesh but it is functioning in other parts of the country.\u00a0 The government must provide relief to our farmers and make Bt. Cotton available at affordable prices.\u00a0 The Patent (Amendment) Bill passed recently, may if necessary, be invoked protect farmers against such gross exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Need To Ensure Availability Of Bt. Cotton Seeds To The Farmers At &#8230; on 2 August, 2005 an&gt; Title: Need to ensure availability of Bt. Cotton seeds to the farmers at affordable prices. \u2013 Laid. \u00a0 SHRIMATI\u00a0 D. PURANDESWARI (BAPATLA): I bring to your notice the exploitation of our poor farmers by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Need To Ensure Availability Of Bt. 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