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2006-11-30 | permalink
A hundred farm suicides a month in Vidarbha
The farm activist also refuted the government claim that the low yield is due to spurious Bt. Cotton seed saying that there was no spurious cotton seed in the market since Monsanto had lowered their prices from Rs.1780 per bag to Rs.750. Five months after the announcement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Rs.3750 crore - relief package for the distressed farmers in Vidarbha, the suicide spiral has continued disturbingly with reports of five more farmers ending life in the last two days.
- RxPG News Service, India: A hundred farm suicides a month in Vidarbha
- The Hindu, India: Spurious Bt cotton seeds caused farmers' plight
- The Oakland Institute, USA: Suicide: The new harvest of GM cotton
- AgBioView Newsletter on Agricultural Biotechnology, USA: Natural romanticism only yields need and misery
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2006-11-30 | permalink
A hundred farm suicides a month in Vidarbha
The farm activist also refuted the government claim that the low yield is due to spurious Bt. Cotton seed saying that there was no spurious cotton seed in the market since Monsanto had lowered their prices from Rs.1780 per bag to Rs.750. Five months after the announcement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Rs.3750 crore - relief package for the distressed farmers in Vidarbha, the suicide spiral has continued disturbingly with reports of five more farmers ending life in the last two days.
- RxPG News Service, India: A hundred farm suicides a month in Vidarbha
- The Hindu, India: Spurious Bt cotton seeds caused farmers' plight
- The Oakland Institute, USA: Suicide: The new harvest of GM cotton
- AgBioView Newsletter on Agricultural Biotechnology, USA: Natural romanticism only yields need and misery
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