India needs a seed policy:
Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh Tuesday said India needs to have a seed policy and the country's agriculture should not be dependent on the private sector seed industry.
Besides, international population policies have had a great great influence on Indian policies in the past,'' said PM Kulkarni of Centre for Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, during PR Dubhashi public lecture series on Shaping India's population policy programme - internal and external factors' at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics recently.