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2007-06-19 | permalink
Caritas opposes BT cotton, encourages farmers to use natural methods in Pakistan
Talking with UCA News, Ghulam, 36, said the popularity and publicity surrounding Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton convinced him to take the ”risk” he now regrets. ”While approved commercial varieties of cotton require water supply seven or eight times and only one sack of urea fertilizer during its six-month cultivation period, I had to purchase three sacks and adjust the furrows 11 times to irrigate this ’pygmy’ crop for seven months,” he said. The Catholic farmer was one of 35 participants, most of them farmers, at a press conference entitled ”Say No to Bt Cotton.” Speakers highlighted what they claimed were the harmful effects of Bt cotton and the perceived monopoly of multinational companies that sell such agricultural products. The Agriculture and Environment Development Program of Caritas Pakistan-Multan organized the May 31 event in Chishtian, Punjab province, 500 kilometers southeast of Islamabad.
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2007-06-19 | permalink
Caritas opposes BT cotton, encourages farmers to use natural methods in Pakistan
Talking with UCA News, Ghulam, 36, said the popularity and publicity surrounding Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton convinced him to take the ”risk” he now regrets. ”While approved commercial varieties of cotton require water supply seven or eight times and only one sack of urea fertilizer during its six-month cultivation period, I had to purchase three sacks and adjust the furrows 11 times to irrigate this ’pygmy’ crop for seven months,” he said. The Catholic farmer was one of 35 participants, most of them farmers, at a press conference entitled ”Say No to Bt Cotton.” Speakers highlighted what they claimed were the harmful effects of Bt cotton and the perceived monopoly of multinational companies that sell such agricultural products. The Agriculture and Environment Development Program of Caritas Pakistan-Multan organized the May 31 event in Chishtian, Punjab province, 500 kilometers southeast of Islamabad.
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