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By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, DEC. 17. The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE) today alleged that the aim of the proposed Seed Act, 2004, which has been introduced in Parliament was to "stop farmers from seed saving, seed exchange and seed reproduction." The proposed Act, aimed at replacing farmers' preserved seeds with seeds from private seed industry and monopolist multi-national corporations, had no reason to exist, it said. Addressing a press conference here today, the Director of the Foundation, Vandana Shiva, alleged that the country was being taken for a ride with the introduction of the proposed Act on the ground that it was needed to guarantee seed quality. "Farmers seeds are time-tested and quality seeds,'' she said. According to her, "under pressure from the World Bank, the Seed Policy of 1988 started to dismantle our robust public sector seed supply system, which accounted for 20 per cent of the seeds farmers grow. Eighty per cent of the seed prior to globalisation is the farmers' own varieties, which have been saved, exchanged and reproduced freely and have guaranteed our food security.''
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