-Economic and Political Weekly The changes in Odisha’s agriculture made paddy production a losing proposition, especially for the small farmers who leased in land. Substantial decline in farm income caused by exploitative land lease arrangements, denial of access to a regulated market, crop failures, increased cost of Cultivation, and indebtedness pushed these farmers into severe economic hardship and an inhospitable social environment, which ultimately led to their suicides. Please click here to read more....
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Bt brinjal: Where do we stand? -Rohit Parakh
-Financial Express Given the health impacts of Bt brinjal on animals, one needs to keep in mind that the GM crop surely cannot be declared as safe. Bt brinjal has been found to be released illegally and predictably it has sparked furious reactions on all sides. Some have unsurprisingly already started to ask for Bt brinjal moratorium to be lifted in the light of illegal Bt brinjal Cultivation. In the light of...
More »Cane growers in Maharashtra get cold feet due to drought -Radheshyam Jadhav
-The Hindu Business Line Output next season may see a steep fall Pune: The sugarcane Cultivation in Maharashtra is likely to decline due to drought in 26 districts in the state. The State government is collecting the data of cane Cultivation and according to sources the decline in cane Cultivation will have a drastic impact on sugar production. Primary estimates show that production in the next season might be reduced to just...
More »After Haryana Bt Brinjal find, activists seek pan-India probe -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A day after confirmation of illegal Cultivation of genetically modified (GM) brinjal - Bt Brinjal - in a small farm in Fatehabad district of Haryana, a group of farm activists on Saturday wrote to Union environment ministry seeking its direction to government agencies for time-bound investigations beyond Haryana as they suspect that the Cultivation of this transgenic variety of food crop may not be limited...
More »A wake-up call on proprietary seeds -Mrinalini Kochupillai & Gregory Radick
-The Hindu How India can shift its agriculture from a high-yield ideal to a high-value one When the news broke that PepsiCo was suing small farmers in India for growing a potato variety that is used in its Lay’s chips, popular sympathies immediately went, of course, to the farmers. National and international pressure swiftly mounted, and in short order a humbled PepsiCo backtracked, announcing its withdrawal of the lawsuit. There was global...
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