GMO Bt Cotton Crop Failure Leads to Cotton Ban: Sorry Rockefellers

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/gmo-bt-cotton-crop-failure-leads-cotton-ban-sorry-rockefellers-1397140543

Following crop failure in seven different districts in Karnakata, where cotton growers faced devastating losses, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Ltd.’s (Mahyco) GMO Bt cotton has been permanently banned. Though not one of the biggest biotech companies, the news is still a remarkable blow back to the Big Ag monopolies trying to take root around the world.

Mahyco was founded by “a man who dared to venture beyond visible possibilities and showed immense confidence in his vision. Post independence, when India was still in the process of fortifying her weak economic strength, Badrinarayan Ramulal Barwale sowed the first seeds of economic development,” or so says their website. But it also goes on to mention that funding was provided by none other than the Rockefeller Foundation.

The order was issued by the Director of Agriculture after, “the Bt cotton hybrid MRC-7351 and Nikki Plus supplied by Mahyco failed to give expected yields during kharif (pulses harvest) 2013. In Karnataka, 54,157 farmers who have grown Bt cotton supplied by Mahyco in 58,195 hectares suffered yield loss of more than 50 percent,” reports the Indian newspaper, The Hindu.

[djean111]

1. One danger of GMOs is the fierce push to have them replace everything - and when they fail,

there is no diversity to replace them.

[WhiteTara]

2. k&r