PepsiCo Inc has agreed to withdraw lawsuits against Indian potato farmers it all...
NEW DELHI - PepsiCo Inc has agreed to withdraw lawsuits against Indian potato farmers it alleged infringed a patent by cultivating a variety grown exclusively for its Lay’s potato chips.
“After discussions with the government, the company has agreed to withdraw the cases against the farmers,” a PepsiCo India spokesman said on Thursday, adding that this applied to all nine. Modi and the BJP are seeking a second term and most political strategists think they are likely to succeed. Ashwani Mahajan, who heads the Swadeshi Jagran Manch , the economic wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which is the ideological parent of Modi’s BJP, welcomed PepsiCo’s move as a moral victory for Indian farmers.PepsiCo maintains that it developed the FC5 variety of potato, which has a reduced moisture content to make snacks such as potato chips, and registered the trait in 2016.
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