Amended Seed Act challenged

The Pakistan Amended Seed Act-2015 was challenged in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday. Petitioner, Sheraz Zaka advocate, pleaded that the law had made it mandatory for farmers to buy seeds from a licensed company or its agent. He said this would create a monopoly of companies and make farmers dependent on multinational corporations. He said it was a sheer injustice to millions of small and landless farmers whose food insecurity would be aggravated by this law. He therefore prayed the court to set aside the amended Seed Act of 2015 for being unconstitutional.