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Gene revolution and patent rights.
(From Business Line)
Though patents have an important role to play, the main problem is the way the system gets manipulated. - Vino John.
IN THIS "International Year of Rice," India is being nudged by the US and its cohortsto take up genetically modified rice to "solve the problems" on the this cereal. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research, is all set to celebrate the year of rice with the conviction that it is only biotechnology, to be specific genetically modified rice, that would salvage the crop from all the constraints. The Centre for Cellular Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad, is working on a rice variety bred through molecular manipulation, which is pest-resistant, but the institute's director, Dr Lalji Singh, is sure that this is "no genetically modified rice variety".
At the centre of all these controversies are two things. One, an overarching desire of the multinational corporations to own the seed, and their collaborators in India to lend a helping hand, which is supposed to usher in a "new era" in the farm sector, on the one hand. And, two,the genuine concerns of many who suspect that the motivation is to make money than alleviate hunger from the face of the earth, with attendant dangers to human health and environment from the extensive use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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