An Overview Of The Plant Variety Protection System In India
- IJLLR Journal
- Apr 4
- 1 min read
Dr. Md. Hasanur Zaman Siddique, Assistant Professor in Law, Jyotirmoy School of Law, University of Calcutta
ABSTRACT
Plant Variety Protection (PVP) is essential to incentivize plant breeding, ensuring new, high-yielding, and resilient crop varieties are developed to meet food security, climate change, and agricultural needs. It grants breeders exclusive commercial rights to their inventions, allowing them to recover research costs and fostering, investment, innovation, and international trade. PVP is implemented internationally by the UPOV system. The UPOV Convention 1991 heavily favours breeders, restricting farmers' seed practices and failing to protect traditional, farmer-developed varieties. That’s why India adopted the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001 (PPVFR Act) instead of the UPOV Convention to balance breeder rights with crucial farmers' rights.
This paper primarily focuses on analysing the Indian and international legal frameworks for protecting plant varieties and finding out the key problems with the PPVFR Act.
Keywords: Plant variety, breeder, farmer, convention, etc.
