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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers on yatra make bonfire of GM seeds

Farmers on yatra make bonfire of GM seeds

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published Published on Oct 16, 2010   modified Modified on Oct 16, 2010

On the eve of the World Food Day, hundreds of farmers belonging to the Kisan Swaraj Yatra made a bonfire of genetically modified seeds at Jalna on Friday to symbolically oppose the corporatisation of seeds and to encourage farmers to retain seed diversity.

“We want to put out a message to fellow Indian farmers to acknowledge, appreciate and understand our own breeding abilities and improve on it, to avoid getting trapped in the web of monopolistic corporations,” a press release issued by the Kheti Virasat Mission stated.

It said, that many emerging farmer-breeder networks in the country have evolved popular varieties which were sown by thousands of farmers, but the government's ‘pro-corporate, anti-farmer' policies were hampering such local initiatives.

Farmers speaking on the occasion criticised the public sector agencies for abdicating their role with regard to appropriate, affordable, diverse seeds for farmers even as farmers themselves were being constantly encouraged to give up their well-adapted native seeds and go in for greater seed replacement.

They assailed the Multi National Corporation (MNC) Monsanto for aggressively capturing the seed market in India. “Bt Cotton is a classic example. An overwhelming majority of the Bt Cotton seeds are controlled by the Monsanto. The company is known for its monopolistic behaviour, as reiterated by the MRTP [Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practice] Commission in India in 2006, and is also being investigated in the U.S. for similar behaviour,” the release said.

The Mission wanted such MNCs to quit Indian farming since their profiteering agendas were anti-farmer.


The Hindu, 16 October, 2010, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article833328.ece


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