Chile- FIA/PIPRA Agreement Provides Access to 6600 New Agric Patents
January 19, 2007| |
An agreement between the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA) and the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), a non-for profit organization in the United States, will allow Chilean agricultural researchers to access over 6000 new patents in innovation and novel technologies. The patents are held in a database with contributions from 39 universities and non-for profit institutions in over 10 countries.
“Traditional agriculture requires novel technological instruments to solve problems like the poverty of soils, and plant diseases and pests that reduce productivity, and this agreement will allow us to avail on more technological options to face these problems”, said Rodrigo Vega, Executive Director of FIA.
Read the news at: http://www.fia.cl/contenido.asp?id_contenido=1164&id_tipo=1
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