Seed, food and farmers’ rights


Esther Sinirisan Chong

If the proposed Seed Bill passes through Parliament, individual farmers will be impacted in the variety and variants of crop they can grow. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 19, 2021.

FOR people who grow up in a farmer’s family, having newly harvested rice put on table and sharing the new rice variety with friends and families is a very common practice.

Besides, people exchange seeds among themselves in order to share their own breed varieties or to save them for the next planting season.


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