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The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), commonly known as the Plant Treaty or the Seed Treaty, is an international, legally binding instrument with 154 States as member countries (referred to as Contracting Parties). It was adopted under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2001 and entered into force in 2004. The primary goals of the Seed Treaty (Treaty), are said to be in harmony with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as follows, *conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) *sustainable use of PGRFA *fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of PGRFA. PGRFA can be commonly understood as "Seeds".  According to the UN's Convention on Bio Diversity, States have sovereign rights over genetic resources, including seeds, and can determine the terms and conditions for their international exchange. Similarly, indigenous peopl...

RBI has announced its plans to introduce digital rupee, a Central Bank Digital Currency(CBDC). Across the globe, the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies varies significantly. One prominent model, particularly observed in China, demonstrates a potential for pervasive state control that is fundamentally incompatible with Indian values. Let us look at the Key Characteristics of the Chinese CBDC Model: Pervasive Surveillance: Transactions are meticulously tracked and traceable by the state, offering little to no privacy for individuals. This data can be used for extensive monitoring of citizens’ financial behavior. Centralized Control: The digital currency system grants the government unprecedented power to freeze accounts, set spending limits, or even block transactions based on social or political criteria. Lack of Anonymity: The concept of anonymous cash transactions is largely eliminated, replaced by a system where every financial interaction leaves a digital footprint ac...

Dr.Richhariya, was an Agri-scientist who served as a Chief Scientist under the Government of India for many decades. He estimated that India in 1950s, had more 200,000 varieties of Traditional Paddy Seeds. These heirloom Traditional paddy seeds were carefully breeded by Indian farmers for over thousands of years, each variety having its own unique characteristic features. At a rate of 3 unique traditional rice per day, it would take 183 years to taste every traditional rice of India. India's Traditional Farmers were able to develop rice with specialized traits such as diabetes-friendly, anemia-treating, ADHD-calming, Alzheimer’s-slowing, and even rice varieties that could stop deaths due to pneumonia and diarrhea due to its rich nutritional properties. Traditional rice is also proven to be anti-oxidant powerhouse loaded with micro nutrients and rare phytonutrients that are absent in modern hybrid rice. Our traditional farmers were also able to breed aromatic rice which gave unique ...

Zionism is the primary political ideology that drove the establishment of Israel. Zionism is a settler colonization movement which is being manipulated as Jewish Nationist Movement. This has nothing to do with Judaism as a religion, rather it is a political idealogy. The founder of Zionism, Deutsche Zeitung, was an atheist and had no belief in God. Zionism began to grow in the late 19th century in the context of huge changes in political, cultural, social landscape against Jewish life in Europe. Zionism, as a political ideology and as a movement, has always hierarchized Jews based on race and blood, and has not equally benefited or been liberatory for all Jewish people in Israel. Zionism is and was an Ashkenazi-Jews(a sect of Jews) led movement that is based hierarchy on ethnicity and race. It discriminates against Jews from across the Middle East and North Africa that it terms as Mizrahim(the Eastern Ones). The most controversial Ashkenazi Jews behind Zionism is Rothschild banking fam...

 கருப்பு கவுனியின் அரிசியின் மருத்துவ குணங்கள் அனைவரும் அறிந்ததே. பாரம்பரிய நெல் ரகங்கள் அனைத்துமே மனித உடலுக்கு தேவையான முக்கிய சத்துகள் நிறைந்துள்ளன என்பது அறிவியல் உண்மை.  ஆனால், இன்று நாம் உட்கொள்ளும் அனைத்து அரிசியுமே ஒட்டு ரக அரிசிகள்(Hybrid). இவை அதிக விளைச்சலுக்காக செயற்கையாக உருவாக்கப்பட்டவை. ஆனால், பாரம்பரிய நெல் ரகங்கள் என்பது ஆயிரம் ஆயிரம் ஆண்டு பழைமையானது. இவை சூழலை தாங்கி வளரக்குடியவை. செயற்கை ரசயானங்கள், பாரம்பரிய நெல் ரகங்களுக்கு தேவை இல்லை. இன்று நாம் சந்திக்கும் சாக்ரை நேய், உட்டசத்து குறைபாடு உள்ளிட்ட நோய்களுக்கு இந்த, ஒட்டு ரக விதைகளின் பங்கு மிக அதிகம். இப்படி இருக்க, தமிழக வேளாண்மை பல்கலைக்கழகம், சமிபத்தில் கருப்பு கவுனி(hybrid) ஒட்டு ரக விதைகளை அறிமுகப்படுத்தியுள்ளது(கோ-57). கருப்பு கவுனியின் சிறப்பை மக்கள் அறிந்துள்ளதால், சந்தையில் அதன் விலை இன்று பிரகாசமாய் உள்ளது. ஆனால், எது உண்மையான பாரம்பரிய நாட்டு கருப்பு கவுனி என்று இன்று சொல்லமுடியாத நிலை உள்ளது. நாம் அறிந்த மருத்துவ குணமுள்ள கருப்பு கவுனி நாட்டு ரக நெல். ஆனால், இந்த ஒட்டு ரக கருப்பு கவுனியில் இவ...

It is a common belief that Sanskrit is the oldest language of India. S cript is very important aspect of any language. Script is a written form of a language. Script is considered one of the important evolution of a language as people can transmit their knowledge through writing to future generations with ease. In olden days, words of languages were written in rocks and stones. The oldest known Sanskrit inscriptions on stone, written in the Brahmi script, are the Hathibada Ghosundi inscriptions, dating back to the 2nd-1st century BCE, found near Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. Sanskrit didn't have it own script during those days. So, they used brahmi script for writing Sanskrit. Most stone carving found in North India had Brahmi scripts in it. So researchers assumed, Brahmi was the oldest script in India with Sanskrit as the oldest language. But, many stone carving & inscriptions found in Tamil nadu and Kerala didn't match with the Brahmi script. Also, the language written in sto...

Union Government of India has planned mega infrastructure development project in Great Nicobar Island, situated in the south of Andaman Island. Union has also allocated 80,000 crores of public tax money to implement this ecocide. The Government has proposed a host of new "development" projects, including an international cruise terminal to facilitate port-led city and accommodate high-end tourists, a ship-building and ship-repair facility, and an export-import (exim) port to help bring in construction material from neighbouring countries, a power plant and 130 sq.km township project and other real estate projects by destroying the 32,123 acres of forest. A key concern with the project from the very beginning has been the scale of forest destruction proposed, with a large portion allocated for the township, real estate infrastructures, large commerical shipping port that are proposed. Initial numbers for trees to be cut ranged from 8.65 lakh, as mentioned in the March 2021 pro...