日本の種子と農家の権利を守る

Protecting Japanese Farmer Rights

Seeds are taken out from the harvest and repeated harvesting for registered varieties, The Proposed Amendment to the Seed and Seedling Law prohibits “self-propagation”. It aims to protect the rights of new breed developers, but it is feared that the burden will increase as farmers cannot carry out the self-propagation that they normally do.

Following the abolition of the major crop seed law, which prescribes that prefectures should stably supply seeds such as rice, and the Act on Support for Strengthening Agricultural Competitiveness, which requires private enterprises to provide knowledge about seeds and seedlings possessed by prefectures, It is in a series of flows.seeds and seedlings have been developed mainly by public institutions such as the national government and prefectures, and the licensing fees have been kept low. However, the government is deregulating the responsibility for breed development from public institutions to the private sector.

Source: https://mainichi.jp/premier/politics/articles/20200824/pol/00m/010/002000c