Dear All including Giby ji and Satish ji : In an ethnobotany course a few years ago, we were told by a visiting professor (name forgotten) : in the old days the seeds were collected by coastal village folks (read women) and used for oil lamps....
recently saw conferences being advertised internationally about use of Calophyllum inophyllum cultivation for profit for bio diesel industry .... so its old wisdom gathered by these women from their and their ancestors' experiences and use of their innate intellect , wonder if anybody thought of compensating them for their "patent" and "TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER" ? These same farmers // poor folks are asked to fork over major money for hybrid or "improved" seeds and pay for intellectual rights of MNC scientists !!!! Go figure... Usha di
