D-plant-breeders-rights Dictionary
Plant breeders' Rights
The breeder's right to control and charge a royalty for the propagation and sale of a registered plant variety
- Plain meaning
- The breeder's right to control and charge a royalty for the propagation and sale of a registered plant variety
- How to use it
- Read the variety licence before planting: it sets the royalty, who you may sell to and what happens if you remove the trees.
- South African benchmark
- Protection runs twenty years for most crops and twenty-five for trees and vines.
- Country notes
- Each local market has its own variety-protection law; licensed export cultivars carry royalties wherever they are grown.
- Go and read
- C8 Lesson 8.9
- Calculate it
- Add the royalty per tree or per carton to the enterprise budget.
Introduced in C8 Value Add, Processing and IP.