The Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti farmers advocacy group has
approached the local state Govt. of Maharashtra to arrange a high level probe of
all complaints received from farmers of west Vidarbha where more than 10,000
cotton farmers have committed suicide since June 2005 after the introduction of
the killer Bt cotton seeds in this region.Around Rs.10,000 crore has been pumped in by Indian and state
Govt. to bailout cotton farmers from the agrarian crisis which is likely to get
worse if corrective action are not taken immediately, Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha
Janandolan Samiti said today.…
Monsanto officials beaten up by Cotton farmers as Bt.cotton seed failed
When news of a Monsanto senior official’s arrival from Mumbai
reached the nearby village of Munjala, cotton farmers of the village Karanji,
about 140 K.m. from Nagpur located the Monsanto official and took him to their
field where a complete failure of ‘Paras Sudarshan’ Bt cotton seed was shown to
him.When the Monsanto representative failed to admit the lapse, he
was severely beaten up by the farmers.It was reported that even a local agriculture officer did not
come to his rescue.http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july122011/india-monsanto-beaten-tk.php
Also some details in there about what looks like a farmer getting in trouble for supplying regular seed disguised as Monsanto seed. Although frankly I read that about five times and still don’t know what it’s saying.
Anyway, this is just a modern version of highland clearances which is designed to make the third world as servile as the west. How do I know this? Simple, we were taught in geography that this is a good thing that needs to happen (particularly in India). When in truth the west needs more small farmers like the rest of the world has, which means more independence and less state control. Urban ‘panopticons‘ (such as those advocated by Zeitgeist types) allow state/bankster micro management of everyone’s lives. aka NWO.
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