[Ngo-sanrm] Nearly 300, 000 suicides in India so far from GMO crop failures

Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Working Group ngo-sanrm at ngocentre.org.vn
Mon Jul 28 13:59:51 BST 2014


A report by India's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) revealed that,
between 1995 and 2011, 290,740 farmer suicides had taken place due to
economic failure, poverty and bankruptcy caused by adoption of GMO seeds
and technology.  The nearly 300,000 farmer suicides are a direct result of
mounting debt and crop failures associated with GMO crops, and mainly
cotton crops that were forcibly converted to patented, transgenic varieties
owned by Big Biotech.  (Natural News)

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<http://www.naturalnews.com/046193_GMO_crop_failures_farmer_suicides_India.html##ixzz38lcvC34s>

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