The Department of Agriculture (DOA) appears to be using this mourning period to quietly amend Thailand’s Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Act 1999 to align with the UPOV Convention of 1991.
On 6th September BioThai, together with Chulalongkorn University’sDrug System Monitoring and Development Centre, DMDC*, issued a statement on the patent application by Japanese researchers over a plant known in Thailand as Kratom**.
This was the warning given by a former Minister of Public Health who knows all about food and medicine monopolies, as well as leading academics with expertise in the fields of intellectual property rights laws, plant breeding, and biology, when they learned of the Department of Agriculture’s prop
