식물 신품종 육성자권리 보호제도 도입의 영향

Breeding of new plant variety is initiative and contribute to develop seed industry and agriculture, therefore an effective plant variety protection (PVP) is necessary to encourage development new varieties of plants where there is commercial viability and induce continuous investment for breeding. PVP system provides breeder to develop high quality, reasonable price, extension scope of varieties selection for growers and increase the international competitiveness through export of variety and seed. It is also recalled that, as a consequence of the breeder’s exemption in the UPOV Convention, domestic breeders also gain access to valuable varieties for use in their breeding programs. The impact of introduction of PVP system encourage to extent plant genera and species by the request of breeder which increase the number of varieties for PVP and it makes wide scope of varieties for the grower's selection. The activity of plant breeding in private sector was activated and it caused increment in number of varieties particular in commercial crops and number of individual breeders. PVP system also affected on the public sector breeding to increase number of varieties for application for PVP. Variety was diversified and improved in yield, quality, resistance to stress, functional characteristics by the request of grower, farmer and consumer by the accession of commercial variety for their breeding program. With access to such valuable varieties, domestic growers and producers have more scope to improve their production and export their products. The PVP system once caused royalty problem of the species where the base of plant breeding is weak, however it gave an opportunity to establish basis of plant breeding using those of introduced varieties and that was a chance for user to recognize the necessary of royalty payment.