There was no focus on good seeds.”“Traditional varieties of crops were bred by farmers over thousands of years. “Corporations like Monsanto have people employed just to spy on farmers and see if they are reusing seeds from their last cultivation. Our farmers had put in centuries of work and were constantly breeding crops to make them climate-resilient and pest-resilient. They want farmers to buy fresh batches of seeds from them before every cultivation. However, this diversity got eroded once we focused only on productivity.”However, agriculture activist said government policies are slowly changing after there has been surplus production of horticulture and agriculture crops every year, Kuruganti said.
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