Seeds of hope....and despair

Ever since the dawn of agriculture in the evolution history of human civilization, the food production system has witnessed drastic changes. One basic entity in this system that has unparallelly withstood the tests of time is the ‘Seed’. The seed is the first link between production and consumption in the food chain. For centuries the farmers have been the saviours and propagators of these indigenous seed varieties. It has been an eternal natural right that farmers/growers have been conferred upon with—the right to grow, develop, manage, harvest, consume and sell the products from their toil. Here we have tried to draw attention to the importance of why at all the indigenous seeds need to be saved.