law: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001
  Chapter VI Farmers
  
  Rights
  39. Farmers' right.-
  1.  Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in this Act,-
   
  
   i.  
  
    a
  
  farmer who has bred or developed a new variety shall be entitled for
  
  registration and other protection in like manner as a breeder of a variety
  
  under this Act;
   
  
   ii.  
  
  
  
    the
  
  farmers' variety shall be entitled for registration if the application contains
  
  declaration as specified in clause (h) of sub-section (1) of section 18;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    a
  
  farmer who is engaged in the conservation of genetic resources of land races
  
  and wild relatives of economic plants and their improvement through selection
  
  and preservation shall be entitled in the prescribed manner for recognition and
  
  reward from the Gene Fund: Provided that material so selected and preserved has
  
  been used as donors of genes in varieties registrable under this Act;
   
  
   iv.  
  
    a
  
  farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share
  
  or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under this Act
  
  in the same manner as he was entitled before the coming into force of this Act:
  
  Provided that the farmer shall not be entitled to sell branded seed of a variety
  
  protected under this Act.
  Explanation.- For the
  
  purposes of clause (iv), "branded seed" means any seed put in a
  
  package or any other container and labelled in a manner indicating that such
  
  seed is of a variety protected under this Act. (2) Where any propagating
  
  material of a variety registered under this Act has been sold to a farmer or a
  
  group of farmers or any organisation of farmers, the breeder of such variety
  
  shall disclose to the farmer or the group of farmers or the organisation of
  
  farmers, as the case may be, the expected performance under given conditions,
  
  and if such propagating material fails to provide such performance under such
  
  given conditions, the farmer or the group of farmers or the organisation of
  
  farmers, as the case may be, may claim compensation in the prescribed manner
  
  before the Authority and the Authority, after giving notice to the breeder of
  
  the variety and after providing him an opportunity to file opposition in the
  
  prescribed manner and after hearing the pa ties, may direct the breeder of the
  
  variety to pay such compensation as it deems fit, to the farmer or the group of
  
  farmers or the organisation of farmers, as the case may be.