Our Seeds Are In Danger
India Seed Sovereignty Alliance
Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch
The Alliance has 100 dedicated seed committees from 18 states of India. We are farmers, seed savers, intellectuals, individuals, experts, scientists, designers. We save, promote, and exchange traditional seeds, without compromising farmers’ rights and seed sovereignty. Our seeds are our collective bio-cultural heritage.
CONTRIBUTE
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Why farmers prefer traditional seeds over hybrids?
Seed Committees
States
“Hybrids are designed to force the farmer to the market every season, since they do not breed true. Yield being the only focus, Hybrids are quantity empty of quality, and weight empty of nutrition.”
— Shalini Bhutani, Madhya Pradesh
Emerging threats to our agriculture, crop diversity and our farmers are the field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops that the Central Government has allowed. This can widely contaminate our traditional varieties; and such damage would be unstoppable and irreversible. This network unites all corners of the country in a single voice for our seed sovereignty.
The alliance
The Indian Seed Sovereignty Alliance Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch is farmers, seed savers, intellectuals, individuals, experts, scientists, designers.
EVENTS
Seed festivals, training on seed-saving, policy discussions, farming workshops.
PRESS
View our positions and activities documented by the media.
Our Stance
Press Note: Farmers’ Rights in FAO-Seed Treaty & UN Forums and the state of its realisation in National Laws-PPV & FR Act, Biodiversity Act
Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch (India Seed Sovereignty Alliance) urgently calls upon the Government of India to recognize and safeguard the rights of peasants and other rural communities, on seeds and plant propagation material. These rights, as enshrined in the UN...
Seed Sovereignty Declaration
The seed is the first link in the food chain. It is a sacred code of evolution, an embodiment of life and memory, a latent world waiting to unfold. The seed gives itself to Earth — warm soil, air and moisture —and comes alive. Drawing energy from the sun, it grows and...
A patent on seed implies that a farmer saving seed is an “intellectual property theft”. It means more a complete corporate monopoly, a system of enslaving farmers, where the freedom of seed disappears, the freedom of farmers disappears.