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Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Right Awareness (PPV&FRA)

The Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, 2001 (PPVFR Act) is an Act of the Government of India that was enacted to provide for the establishment of an effective system for protection of plant varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders, and to encourage the development and cultivation of new varieties of plants. This PPV&FR Act, 2001 was enacted to grant intellectual property rights to plant breeders, researchers and farmers who have developed any new or extant plant varieties. The Intellectual Property Right granted under PPV&FR Act, 2001 is a dual right – one is for the variety and the other is for the denomination assigned to it by the breeder. The rights granted under this Act are heritable and assignable and only registration of a plant variety confers the right. Essentially Derived Varieties (EDV) can also be registered under this Act and it may be new or extant. Farmers are entitled to save, use, sow, re-sow, exchange or sell their farm produce including seed of a registered variety in an unbranded manner. Farmers’ varieties are eligible for registration and farmers are totally exempted from payment of any fee in any proceedings under this Act. Such farmer’s varieties were unique for their morphological characters (size, shape, texture and colour of grain in case of rice), tolerance to water logging (rice), soil salinity (rice), lodging as well as aroma (rice), size, shape, texture and colour etc. The rights granted under this Act are exclusive right to produce, sell, market, distribute, import and export the variety.

Objectives:

  • To sensitize the farmers about their rights and protection acts in respect of their contributions made at any time in conserving, improving and making available plant genetic resources for the development of new plant varieties.
  • To discuss the issues and perspectives of PPV&FRA for the agricultural development.

 

“Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights” Awareness programmes were organized at 32 identified KVKs under ICAR ATARI, Kolkata in collaboration with PPV&FRA, Government of India, New Delhi during 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Activities carried out:

  • The KVKs mostly conducted the programme in a phased manner in different dates to create awareness about the importance of preserving indigenous crop varieties among more number of farmers.
  • Before actual conduct of the programme, the farmers were requested to bring notified varieties/seeds of indigenous crop varieties on the day of the programme.
  • The indigenous varieties/seeds were displayed in the training hall for the benefit of all the farmers.
  • Registration forms were filled up by the KVKs and sent to PPV&FRA along with required quantity of seeds for its further testing as well as preservation.

 

 Training cum awareness Programme conductedduring 2016-17 and 2017-18

State

No. of KVKs

No. of Awareness programme conducted

No. of total participants

No. of farmers’ varieties applied for registration

West Bengal

9

20

1457

219

Bihar

10

10

1299

285

Jharkhand

13

19

1933

929

Total

32

49

4689

1433

 

Budget Sanction for FY 2016-17

ICAR-ATARI Kolkata has been sanctioned an amount of Rs. 25.60 lakh for the financial year 2016-17.

Regional Workshop of PPV&FR during 2018-19

A Regional Workshop on Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights was organizedon 15.03.19 atWest Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences, Belgachhia, Kolkata by ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kolkata with the fund support of Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, New Delhi.Altogether 250 progressive farmers from all the KVKs of Odisha andWest Bengal, PPV&FR officials, ICAR Scientists, University teachers, media personnel and others participated in this Regional Workshop.Inaugural session of this Regional Workshop was chaired by Prof. Purnendu Biswas, Vice Chancellor, WBUA&FS, Kolkata in the presence of Dr. R.C. Agarwal, Registrar General, PPV&FRA, New Delhi; Dr. Randhir Singh, ADG(AE), ICAR, New Delhi; Dr. S.S. Singh, Director, ICAR-ATARI, Kolkata; Sh. R.S. Sengar, Deputy Registrar, PPV&FRA, New Delhi; Prof. P.K. Roul, Dean, OUAT, Prof. A. Goswami, DREF, WBUA&FS, Belgachhia; Dr. P.P. Pal, Dr. Avijit Haldar and Dr. F. H. Rahman, Principal Scientists, ICAR- ATARI, Kolkata.

  • Total no. of KVKs participated in the workshop: 52
  • Total no of participants: 250
  • No. of varieties identified: 689

 

Budget Sanction for FY 2018-19

ICAR-ATARI Kolkata has been sanctioned an amount of Rs.5.00 lakh for the financial year 2018-19.

 

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  • Sadbhavna Diwas 2019 celebrated at ATARI Kolkata
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  • Proceedings of Review workshop on Creation of Seed-Hubs for Increasing Indigenous Production of Pulses in India
  • International Yoga Day was celebrated at ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kolkata on 21st June 2017
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