Have you heard that you will be fined for saving your own seeds? Does it feel strange and a little inexplicable, so what exactly is going on? Not long ago, there was a case where a seed company took a case to court and was fined 100,000 because of self-saved seeds.
1. A farmer was fined 100,000 yuan
Not long ago, the news reported an incident. It was said that a large grower thought that his grain output in previous years was very high, so he thought of simply He set aside 973 acres of seeds for himself, but what he didn't expect was that he would be sued by the seed company.
And the seed company won. Isn’t it so strange?
With everyone’s questions, I checked the relevant seed information and found out that the farmers were not unjust at all.
2. my country’s regulations on seeds
We must first know how important crop seeds are.
I remember this happened in the 1990s. At that time, due to seed problems, many farmers' hard work was wasted, and many farmers were in pain holding the food they grew.
Because many farmers bought fake seeds at that time.
As a result, many farmers have lost their harvest.
The scene of farmers crying while holding the seedlings that they could not grow is still fresh in my memory.
Another reason is that seeds are the foundation of a country and the food we depend on for survival.
Therefore, the state’s supervision of seeds is very strict.
3. Seeds have patent rights
We all know that an invention will be patented in order to prevent others from infringing on our own rights, so seeds also have patent rights. .
Maybe you will ask whether seeds still have patent rights? Yes, yes, seeds also have patent rights.
What you may not know is that we were deceived by the Japanese a few years ago.
It’s because of the seeds.
This seed is the seed of broccoli.
It is because of this broccoli seed that the Japanese earn over a billion dollars a year.
The cause of the matter is this. At that time, Japan mastered the technology of growing broccoli, and most countries in the world purchased broccoli from Japan.
Broccoli is a very difficult vegetable to grow, but Japan has mastered this technology, so in those years Japan made a lot of money from broccoli alone.
Later, Japan wanted to completely monopolize the broccoli market, so it suddenly raised the price of broccoli seeds. If Japan was not willing to buy them, it would cut off the supply to our country. There is no way that the country would rather eat broccoli for the people. Billions are spent on broccoli seeds.
Learning from the painful experience, our country has overcome many difficulties through its own research and managed to cultivate broccoli seeds, and the quality is higher than that of Japanese broccoli seeds.
So the importance of seeds can be seen from here.
We can also see why seeds also have patent rights.
Because the research of an invention may take several years or even more than ten years, and the hard work of countless people can be successful, and the same is true for seeds.
Why does the old academician Yuan Longping stay rooted in the fields all his life? What he studies is seeds.
Think about how many years it took to succeed.
So some people think that the seeds they buy can be sold by themselves, which is a big mistake.
Because the above facts clearly tell us that seeds cannot be sold. They are the property of the country and have patent rights. Selling them by yourself is a violation of the patent protection law.
4. Seeds can only be used by yourself
Seeds are not commodities, because the food produced from seeds carries the food security problem of the people across the country and is the foundation of the country.
No matter how many seeds we buy or the yield, they can only be consumed by ourselves and cannot be used for commercial purposes.
This also violates state regulations.
Everyone should know that the grain we grow is sold to the state. This was called public grain distribution in the past. Think about it, the public grain we paid accounted for more than two-thirds of the grain grown at that time.
Later, in order to take care of the improvement of the people's lives, the country changed to appropriately handing over some public grains to the country, and could handle the rest by itself.
For example, keep it for yourself.
The purpose is also to increase people’s enthusiasm for growing crops.
In addition to a small portion of the public grain that we usually hand over, most of the rest is either stored in the grain cold storage for our own consumption, or sold to merchants who collect grain, but these merchants who collect grain are also in the If it is registered with the state, there is no such thing as sales.
On the contrary, why this person was fined is because he did not grow food for survival, but to profit from it. Such behavior will naturally not be approved by the country.
Food is sacred to everyone and the country, and is different from other commodities.
As society has developed to this day, times are changing, and people’s spiritual culture is also very different from the past. Therefore, you must keep up with the times and don’t do things you regret. Some money You can earn some money, but some money cannot be earned.