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Can China Feed Itself? Index
Crop production value Crop cultivation: rice, wheat, maize, roots, oil crops, soybeans, cotton Crop production - per capita crop production index, 1952-1997 Crusting - ... , 1961 - 1996 Fertility - Recent Fertility Estimates for China Fertilizer application and crop yields Fertilizer consumption Fertilizers - Trends in chemical and organic fertilizer consumption, 1978 ...
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Indian Farmers Are Not Pirates -Monsanto Is A Polluter
Navbharat-151” to the market, long before Monsanto’s Bt. cotton seed was commercially available to farmers in 2002. The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of ... Indian states to grow Monsanto's novel cotton crop. Local requirements. The plant contains genetic material taken from a bacterium. The modification makes the cotton plant's tissues lethal to insect ...
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The new understanding of genes
FlavrSavr, developed in California did not grow well in Florida, and why Monsanto's Bt-cotton crop did not work properly in Texas because it was hotter nor in Australia because it ... an underestimation of the rate and rapidity with which insects develop resistance against built in crop pesticides. For the Bt-toxin produced by transgenic plants, already in the second generation about ...
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EcoNews, Serving the Vision of a Sustainable Vancouver Island
Then there was organic cotton clothing, natural pharmaceuticals, rice, tea and honey, and a company to package the goods, which ... protection for cotton, which led to a ban on cotton crop-dusting throughout Egypt. By 2000, pesticide use on Egypt’s cotton fields had fallen by over 90%, and 80% of Egypt’s cotton was ...
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EJF: Debenhams ban Uzbek cotton
I Help? The Issues Partners Reports Film Photos Success Stories Debenhams ban Uzbek cotton Debenhams reaffirm ban on Uzbek cotton 1st February 2008, London EJF is pleased to report that following an ... labour abuses, including the use of forced child labour, used during the harvesting of the cotton crop. Also of concern is the continuing environmental disaster unfolding in the region of the Aral ...
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EJF: Why We Need to Clean Up Cotton
Labour and Cotton In Uzbekistan -- the world's 2nd largest cotton exporter -- the government orders hundreds of thousands of children -- some as young as seven -- to harvest the annual cotton crop. Hard work for little or no pay, cotton benefits not the rural poor , but the ruling dictatorship, which derives millions from the export of cotton. In Andhra ...
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Genetic Engineering - Cotton
Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India Organic cotton is incomparably superior to genetically modified Bt cotton Rhea Gala 5th August 2005 India's Bt Cotton Fraud Monsanto rides roughshod over Indian cotton ... environmental impact statement for its Bt cotton crop Rhea Gala 21st January 2005 GM Cotton Fails in Indonesia Contrary to Monsanto’s claim, its GM cotton succumbed to drought and insect ...
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Mass Deaths in Sheep Grazing on Bt Cotton
This year, there have been several media reports of sharp increases in the deaths of sheep and goats after grazing in Bt cotton ... began within a week of continuous grazing on the Bt cotton crop residues. Mr. J. Parmesh, one of the shepherds got diarrhoea ... has 100 sheep, but 5 died after grazing on Bt cotton crop residues. He reported that sheep had also died in adjoining ...
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Monsanto's Gene-Altered Cotton in Asia Developing Pest Resistance from Mealy Bugs & Bollworms
RAJENDRA KHATRY Express India, June 18 2008 http://www.expressindia.com:80/latest-news/Mealy-bug-threatens-cotton-crop-in-state/324076/ Chandigarh - The cotton crop in Haryana, especially Bt cotton, is under threat from mealy bug, which may cause extensive damage to the crop if ...
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India Farmers Accuse Monsanto of Pushing Cotton "Seeds of Death"
AP farmers hit by failed Bt cotton crop Uma Sudhir, NDTV http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=AP+farmers+hit+by+failed+Bt+cotton+crop&id=83983&category=National [link for subscribers ... after their cotton crop failed. Most farmers say, Bt cotton that was introduced to put an end to their problems, have now become one of the biggest causes of farmer suicides. Failed crop Twenty ...
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