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The protest in New Delhi which would be attended by farmers from different states in the country would also demand the central government to withdraw the Seed Bill from being placed in the Parliament. ”We will insist that the MPs not to extend their support to the bill,” [Chukki Nanjundaswamy, convener of South Asia Conference of Farmer’s Federations] said. She added that the genetically modified seeds were also emerging as a threat to traditional seeds.
”The conference resolved to destroy the field trials of GM seeds on agriculture fields wherever it is done anywhere in the country,” she added.