Members of the Maize Breeders’ Cooperative group in Phrao District, Chiang Mai Province, are currently planting maize in order to breed new varieties of corn well-suited to the local area. In the process, they are developing skills in corn breeding, under the training and guidance of Dr.
The Department of Agriculture (DOA) appears to be using the period of mourning to quietly amend Thailand’s Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Act 1999 to align with the UPOV Convention of 1991.
This was the warning given by a former Minister of Public Health who knows all about food and medicine monopolies, as well as leading academics with expertise in the fields of intellectual property rights laws, plant breeding, and biology, when they learned of the Department of Agriculture’s prop
Seeds are the basis of agriculture and our food system. It is said that whoever has control over seeds, can control the entire agricultural and food system.
