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Farmers rights under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act of India [1]

Independent India inherited a structure of landholdings characterised by heavy concentration of cultivable areas in the hands of relatively large absentee landowners, the excessive fragmentation of small landholdings, growing number of landless agricultural workers, and the lack of any generalised system of documentary evidence of landownership or tenancy.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2011
P. L. Gautam [2]
Think India [3]
14
3
165-182
Tags:
Agriculture [4], Farmers [5], India [6], Plant Biodiversity [7], Plant Breeding [8], Legislation [9], WTO [10], Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD) [11], Patents [12], Benefit Sharing [13], Seeds [14], Land Ownership [15]
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