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                <div align="justify">-The Hindu Business Line<br /><br /><em>PepsiCo&rsquo;s case against Gujarat&rsquo;s potato growers was a patently weak one<br /></em><br />Right at the outset, it was apparent that PepsiCo never had a strong legal case against farmers growing its registered potato variety without entering into a contract. After pressure from farmers&rsquo; groups, PepsiCo has decided to withdraw cases against about 10 farmers in Gujarat and Rajasthan who were allegedly cultivating its FC-5 variety &mdash; registered by it under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers&rsquo; Rights Act 2001 (PPVFRA) &mdash; for their own use. The FC-5 variety, used to make Lay&rsquo;s chips, is grown under a contract farming deal, by 12,000 farmers in Gujarat&rsquo;s Sabarkantha district. As for proceeding against the rest, PepsiCo&rsquo;s argument is not well supported by the law. Sections 39 and 42 of PPVFRA clearly spell out the rights of the farmers in this regard, making a conscious departure from UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants) 1991. While UPOV 1991 gives breeders the right to monitor all aspects of a farmer&rsquo;s activity, shutting out scope for farmers to re-use seeds without their permission, the PPVRA rules this out. Section 39 (iv) says: &ldquo;A farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under this Act in the same manner as he was entitled before the coming into force of this Act: Provided that the farmer shall not be entitled to sell branded seed of a variety protected under this Act.&rdquo; The seeds, it would appear, were not sold as branded seeds. Likewise, Section 42 says: &ldquo;A right established under this Act shall not be deemed to be infringed by a farmer who at the time of such infringement was not aware of the existence of such right.&rdquo; This makes any claim of damages tenuous.<br /><br />Please <a href="https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/editorial/potato-wars/article27050752.ece" title="https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/editorial/potato-wars/article27050752.ece">click here</a> to read more. <br />&nbsp;</div>               </font>
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<em>PepsiCo&rsquo;s case against Gujarat&rsquo;s potato growers was a patently weak one<br />
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Right at the outset, it was apparent that PepsiCo never had a strong legal case against farmers growing its registered potato variety without entering into a contract. After pressure from farmers&rsquo; groups, PepsiCo has decided to withdraw cases against about 10 farmers in Gujarat and Rajasthan who were allegedly cultivating its FC-5 variety &mdash; registered by it under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers&rsquo; Rights Act 2001 (PPVFRA) &mdash; for their own use. The FC-5 variety, used to make Lay&rsquo;s chips, is grown under a contract farming deal, by 12,000 farmers in Gujarat&rsquo;s Sabarkantha district. As for proceeding against the rest, PepsiCo&rsquo;s argument is not well supported by the law. Sections 39 and 42 of PPVFRA clearly spell out the rights of the farmers in this regard, making a conscious departure from UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants) 1991. While UPOV 1991 gives breeders the right to monitor all aspects of a farmer&rsquo;s activity, shutting out scope for farmers to re-use seeds without their permission, the PPVRA rules this out. Section 39 (iv) says: &ldquo;A farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under this Act in the same manner as he was entitled before the coming into force of this Act: Provided that the farmer shall not be entitled to sell branded seed of a variety protected under this Act.&rdquo; The seeds, it would appear, were not sold as branded seeds. Likewise, Section 42 says: &ldquo;A right established under this Act shall not be deemed to be infringed by a farmer who at the time of such infringement was not aware of the existence of such right.&rdquo; This makes any claim of damages tenuous.<br />
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Potato wars

-The Hindu Business Line PepsiCo’s case against Gujarat’s potato growers was a patently weak one Right at the outset, it was apparent that PepsiCo never had a strong legal case against farmers growing its registered potato variety without entering into a contract. After pressure from farmers’ groups, PepsiCo has decided to withdraw cases against about 10 farmers in Gujarat and Rajasthan who were allegedly cultivating its FC-5 variety — registered by it under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act 2001 (PPVFRA) — for their own use. The FC-5 variety, used to make Lay’s chips, is grown under a contract farming deal, by 12,000 farmers in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district. As for proceeding against the rest, PepsiCo’s argument is not well supported by the law. Sections 39 and 42 of PPVFRA clearly spell out the rights of the farmers in this regard, making a conscious departure from UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants) 1991. While UPOV 1991 gives breeders the right to monitor all aspects of a farmer’s activity, shutting out scope for farmers to re-use seeds without their permission, the PPVRA rules this out. Section 39 (iv) says: “A farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under this Act in the same manner as he was entitled before the coming into force of this Act: Provided that the farmer shall not be entitled to sell branded seed of a variety protected under this Act.” The seeds, it would appear, were not sold as branded seeds. Likewise, Section 42 says: “A right established under this Act shall not be deemed to be infringed by a farmer who at the time of such infringement was not aware of the existence of such right.” This makes any claim of damages tenuous. Please click here to read more.