What are the crops covered under the PPV & FR Act for the protection of crop/varieties?
Answer 23: Initially 35 crops are covered such as rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, mungbean, urdbean, field pea, rajmash, lentil, pigeon pea, rapeseed mustard, groundnut, soybean, sunflower, safflower, castor, sesame, linseed, cotton, jute, sugarcane, lucerne, berseem, tomato, brinjal, okra, cauliflower, cabbage, potato, onion, garlic, rose and chrysanthemum. The DUS test guidelines have been prepared for all the 35 crops.
