CP Group says CPRAM, a CP ALL subsidiary, sought protection for four new varieties, and farmers remain free to grow and trade 300-plus traditional types

FOLLOWING growing pressure over its intention to help farmers, the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) this past week decided to amend the bill one last time in an attempt to reach compromise. But still, the bill’s content was tied up with complicated plant varieties and plant variety protection Acts, and so was viewed by those who opposed it as putting farmers at a disadvantage.