Parliament Must Reject UPOV 91!

Read Comments Comments (4)

• nii 12 years ago

  Why do we allow these foreign IDIOTS to tell us what we can do and not do. this issue SHOULD not even come to parliament for discussion.We have more problems in Ghana such as the Right 2 information Bill,and corruption to dea ...
  read full comment

  Why do we allow these foreign IDIOTS to tell us what we can do and not do. this issue SHOULD not even come to parliament for discussion.We have more problems in Ghana such as the Right 2 information Bill,and corruption to deal with.Please use your heads and stop the nonesense from foreign companies.

  reply
• Concerned African 12 years ago

  Thank you Nii.

  Thank you Nii.

  reply
• Seed Breeder 12 years ago

  This bill is entirely home grown in Ghana by its own plant breeders, not foreign corporations. Ghanaian plant breeders have excellent skills, training, and experience, but are left to subsist on government salaries. They de ...
  read full comment

  This bill is entirely home grown in Ghana by its own plant breeders, not foreign corporations. Ghanaian plant breeders have excellent skills, training, and experience, but are left to subsist on government salaries. They developed and pushed this bill to parliament so that they can profit from their life's work- and why not?
  
  Right now farmers don't have access to good seed because breeders don't have any incentive to push the seeds out to the public. If they were able to profit from their innovations, it would ensure that farmers have access to good quality seed.
  
  I invite you to go out to the field- the varieties that have been "painstakingly" developed over "centuries" are broken down and are low yielding. Obatanpa, by far the most popular variety in Ghana was developed in a lab in the 1990's by Ghanaian researchers. 20 years later (hardly centuries), it is time to get improved varieties out into the hands of farmers.
  
  Don't turn this into a GMO issue FSG- your alarmist fear mongering is wearing on all of us!

  reply
• Victor 12 years ago

  This is an important subject that will affect us as a country and our generations to come. Let's give prominence to this issue than the politicking which is in vogue. Already ,monitor how many will contribute to this discussi ...
  read full comment

  This is an important subject that will affect us as a country and our generations to come. Let's give prominence to this issue than the politicking which is in vogue. Already ,monitor how many will contribute to this discussion in place of topics on character assassination.

  reply