As the last date for the public to submit responses on the draft Seeds Bill ends on December 11, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a platform of several farmers’ organisations, has urged farmers to burn copies of the Bill on Monday, saying the proposed legislation “will extend control over seed supply to multinational companies and corporate houses.”

In a statement issued here on Sunday, the SKM said the Seeds Bill is another piece of legislation to smother federal rights and ruin food security and seed sovereignty.

The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare had notified the draft Bill on November 12. The draft is meant to replace the Seeds Act, 1966. “SKM strongly denounces this regressive legislation to establish MNC corporate hegemony over the Indian seed sector, seriously undermin

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