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Another Victory Against The GE Goliath
Karnataka showed that not only did Monsanto’s cotton not protect the plants from the American Bollworm, but there was a increase of 250-300% in attacks by non-target pests like ... exploded Monsanto’s myths that transgenic Bt plants are protected against bollworm. The trial plots were attacked not just by bollworm, but increasingly by non-target pests, forcing participating farmers to spray ...
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Return to Organic Cotton & Avoid the Bt-Cotton Trap
To control pests such as the spotted bollworm, American bollworm, tobacco caterpillar, pink bollworm, aphids, jassids, thrips, white fly and mites, each of which is ... American bollworm that soon die; bracon, another parasitic wasp, lays its eggs in bollworm larvae.� Hoverfly larvae feed on aphids; pirate bugs feed on bollworm larvae, and big eyed bugs feed on bollworm ...
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Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India
A majority of NPM farmers reported low incidence of spotted bollworm (76.9% against 65.8% of Bt growers), American bollworm (76.1% against 17.1% of Bt growers), and Tobacco Caterpillar ... 4% against 24.8%). Table 1. Incidence of Bollworm complex on Bt and NPM cotton. Level of incidence Spotted Bollworm American Bollworm Tobacco Caterpillar Pink Bollworm Bt cotton NPM cotton Bt cotton NPM cotton Bt ...
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Monsanto's Gene-Altered Cotton in Asia Developing Pest Resistance from Mealy Bugs & Bollworms
Eden Foods Nurturing more than 350 North American organic family farms Ode Magazine Smile, Laugh and Cry with ... cotton crop in the state had often been damaged by the American Bollworm. In 2002, the bug had caused severe damage to the crop ... flourish. http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8868 + SUPER BOLLWORM COMETH In the USA bollworms are developing resistance to Bt cotton ...
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Indian Farmers Are Not Pirates -Monsanto Is A Polluter
Navbharat Seeds Pvt. Ltd. of Gujarat had already brought a bollworm resistant variety “Navbharat-151” to the market, long before Monsanto� ... Supreme Court of Canada. He is one among 1500 North American farmers sued or threatened in similar ways by Monsanto. To ... 's tissues lethal to insect pests, including the economically damaging bollworm. But farmers here claim to have been using their own ...
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ECNT � Current Campaigns � Land Clearing � Ord River
Chinese farmers whose crops are modified to resist the bollworm larvae. The farmers are being forced to use vast amounts ... with GM cotton. While the GM cotton still protects against bollworm, in the long term China may need to introduce natural predators ... presented her results on 25 July at a meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association in Long Beach, California. What's more, ...
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Bt cotton
The Bt gene was isolated and transferred from a bacterium bacillus thurigiensis to American cotton. The American cotton was subsequently crossed with Indian cotton to introduce the gene into native ... thuringiensis. This bacterial gene, introduced genetically into the cotton seeds, protects the plants from bollworm (A. lepidoptora), a major pest of cotton. The worm feeding on the leaves of ...
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Say No To GMOs! - January 2006c
And yet the hype continues. "While American farmers are Monsanto's main customers, much of their market is ... produce an insect-repellent cotton crop that would survive attacks by bollworm, a pest that has destroyed large swaths of the country' ... same amount in lost export earnings that they receive in American aid each year. The farmers' rejection of GM technology at ...
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Background Info- Clothes for a Change
In India, organic farmers intercrop cotton ... an hour minimum living wage for an assembly-line worker in China. More than 200 American textile mills have closed since 1998. Home | News | Organics | GE Food | Health | Environment | Food Safety ...
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