@article{Aggarwal:163522,
      recid = {163522},
      author = {Aggarwal, Vani and Satpute, Aditya},
      title = {Role of Trips in Indian Agriculture Sector: Balancing  Traditional Knowledge and Biotechnology},
      address = {2013-12},
      number = {138-2016-2018},
      pages = {22},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Historically, the onset of green revolution that led to  the introduction of high-yielding varieties (HYV) seeds  rewrote the growth story of Indian agriculture. In the long  term side effects of intensive farming were realized. In  the meanwhile this success led to introduction of Bacillus  Thuringiensis (Bt) cotton in India. Since then various  divergent voices are being raised to protect traditional  seed holding rights of the farmers. The policy paralysis  due to elusive fear of patent rights has contributed to  stalemate in embracing Genetically Modified (GM) crops. The  study finds that the heightened scrutiny due to those fears  brought new evidence about non-viability of such crops for  Indian conditions. The agriculture sector has overcome the  stalemate and is silently evolving to embrace its vast  cultural knowledge and biodiversity along with non GM  technology. The study is centered on the role of trade  related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) and  its impact on agricultural innovation lead by traditional  knowledge and biotechnology. The data extracted from RBI,  FAO and UNCOMTRADE WITS suggests that the share of primary  products in the total exports is on decline. Similarly, the  yield of Bt Cotton has become stagnant after an initial  increase till 2004. After critically analyzing the reasons  for current decline, the study suggests a relook at  innovation by increasing the research and development (R&D)  expenditure in traditional knowledge (TK) and biotechnology  by both public and private stakeholders.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163522},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.163522},
}