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Info Service on Sustainable Agriculture The
OK Seed Project Japan has issued a statement against the revision
of Japan's two seed-related bills, the "Plant Variety Protection
Act (PVP Act)" and the "Act on the Promotion of Breeding
and Seedling Production of Important Varieties" (commonly known
as the Climate Change Adaptive Variety Act). The group demands the withdrawal of 35-year monopoly extension on new plant varieties, legal protection and active support for farmers' rights to save seeds and to conserve and utilize traditional varieties, defending independence of local agricultural experiment stations and the rebuilding of a robust, public seed supply system. It
also calls for Japan to immediately end political pressure exerted
on Asian countries through the East Asia Plant Variety Protection
(EAPVP) Forum whose objective is to get other countries to join UPOV
1991 and change their national PVP laws.
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