Bt cotton that is modified to produce its own insecticide had been linked to the suicides of poor Indian farmers
POOR Indian farmers are not driven to suicide by the pressures of growing genetically modified cotton, concludes a comprehensive review published last month – if anything, suicides among farmers have fallen since Bt cotton was introduced by Monsanto in 2002, quite steeply in some states.
“It is not only inaccurate, but simply wrong to blame the use of Bt cotton as the primary cause of farmer suicides in India,” says the report by independent think tank, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).…
