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There is nothing stopping Monsanto in selling those in the US or markets outside of India.

However, in lands commonly plagued by famine, I could see the argument that terminator seeds would impose a serious security risk to the population. If for some reason the harvest fail, then the farmers is out of both money and seeds to survive for the next year. There would be nothing to fall back on. Terminator seeds would become de-facto time-bombs that are triggered during bad years, and I would understand a government depended on farming to outlaw such seed.

Correction: Below commenter is right that there might be legal issues in using the seeds even outside countries that has explicitly outlawed it. My fault for just reading the sources and not the whole Wikipedia section.



On the legality of terminator-seeds:

>Initially developed as a concept by the United States Department of Agriculture and multinational seed companies, Terminator seeds have not been commercialized anywhere in the world due to opposition from farmers, indigenous peoples, NGOs, and some governments. In 2000, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity recommended a de facto moratorium on field-testing and commercial sale of terminator seeds; the moratorium was re-affirmed in 2006. India and Brazil have passed national laws to prohibit the technology. [1]

How binding is a moratorium? I have no clue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technol...




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