alt Hacker NewsPlant patents incentivize the creation of disease resistant, tasty, and hardy varieties. If you remove the patents, you remove the incentive for private capital.
Capital to create new plants has to come from somewhere: public tax funding, grower-funded pools, or patent licensing. We do a mix of all three.
Farmers already have plenty of incentive for hardy and resistant varieties. People already have plenty of incentive for tasty varieties.
You don’t need patents. The single biggest technology driver has been maths. And it doesn’t have patents.
Patents stifle innovation.