continue the suicide Indian peasants. In the fields of Vidarbha, the cotton belt in central India, from June 2005 to July 16 this year if they are consumed 660, at least according to the association Jan Andolan Samiti . And 'now a real social crisis (and agricultural) , due in large part indebtedness of small farmers, who are increasingly dependent on expensive hybrid seeds of multinational companies, from grape varieties that can likewise not be replanted (and INDEPENDENT compensation in many fertilizers and pesticides). Accused in particular genetically modified Bt cotton of Monsanto (Bt). It is mentioned in this article the scholar-activist Vandana Shiva.
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