This implies that a majority of the farmers will rely on their own saved seed, seed obtained from other farmers within the village or on seed purchased from the nearby rural market.
For green chiles, this encourages the use of hybrid varieties, which guarantee that each seed purchased has the same genotype and produces identically shaped fruits.
Mr. Bowman, however, argued that he had the right to plant and save any seeds, including Roundup Ready seeds, purchased from the grain elevator without following Monsanto's rules, because the company could no longer control use of seeds once they were sold to the grain elevator.
Alamo seeds, purchased from the Bamert Seed Company in Muleshoe, TX, were dehusked by soaking in 60% H2SO4 for 30 minutes with shaking, and then washed six times in sterile distilled water with shaking, 5 minutes per wash.
Trigonella seeds purchased from the local market were finely powdered and mixed at 5% in ground standard rat feed (i.e. 5 g of dry ground Trigonella seeds in 95 g of ground rat food).
You can use seeds scraped out of the center of a papaya fruit, or seeds purchased from a gardening store.
Gladwin Gillispie, a farmer in Dumas, north of Amarillo, said he and his sons were asked by Azteca about a week ago for their year-old seed purchase receipts.
To ensure supplies, project promoters established Jatropha seed purchase contracts with farmer organizations.
Since these traders do not act as brokers, they incur costs in seed purchases, transportation and storage.
As a result, Bowman argued that his seed purchases weren't covered by Monsanto's customary patent license.
