PETALING JAYA: Rice and vegetable farmers are worried that a new law on seed quality and changes to an existing law on plant varieties could mean that they will be edged out of the sector in favour of big corporations.
Malaysia Padi Farmers Brotherhood Association (PeSawah) chairman Abdul Rashid Yob said that if the Bill, tentatively called the Crop Seed Quality Bill, is passed, traditional practices that have been passed down through generations, such as saving, sharing, and selling seeds among farmers, will no longer be freely allowed.
