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MNCs dominating seed market: farmers' forum [1]

The Government has to step in to curb the stranglehold the seed companies have over the choice of seeds, speakers at a round table on ‘Protecting Farmers from Seed Crises' said.

Multinational seed companies like Monsanto are dominating the market and not allowing farmers to retain a portion of their crop for seed, K Nageswara Rao of the All-India Kisan Sabha said here on Friday. He demanded that the Government step in to curb black marketing of seeds.

Publication Date: 
16/06/2012
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Farmers [3], Seeds [4], Agro-Based Industry [5], Monsanto [6], Biotechnology Industry [7], Agriculture [8]
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