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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7915
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture

Small-scale seed producers rile against plant patenting system

Brussels, 02/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - The defenders of farm seeds took advantage of a meeting on Wednesday between Nicole Fontaine's agricultural advisor and the German Green, Wilhelm Graef zu Baringdorf, Chair of the EP's Agriculture Committee, to denounce the "constant pressure" exercised by some industrialists in the sector on farmers to use certified seeds. The representatives of the trade union organisations that make up the European Union of Farm Seeds and Plants (UESPF) handed in, at...

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