By Pierric Lamat, november 25, 2018
Back in the 80’s, the Indian Government, following the advice of the IMF, has promoted the us GMOs. Thousands of farmers have abandoned their traditional seeds for GMOs seeds provided by international company like Monsanto. At that time, the farmers accepted to buy new seeds that 10 times more expansive. They took that decision because they were told that those GMOs seeds were resistant to insects and other parasites. They thought they would not have to buy pesticides. The farmers had to take heavy loans to move to those GMOs.
But the resellers of those magical seeds forgot to tell the farmers that the GMOs plants was in fact not resistant to local Indian insects and diseases. That was the first deception as farmers had to buy pesticides, but they could not, and the harvest was very small. The second negative effects that was not mentioned at that time, is that those plants neds 2 times more water than traditional ones. As a consequence, the soils get depleted. This has impacted the harvest of the following years as it was a lot reduced compared to what they could expect.
The worst of it, is that the farmers had to buy new seeds from Monsanto, because the GMOs seeds has been modified in such a way that they cannot reproduce themselves. This geneticaf technology was called « Terminator ».
After this first terrible year, the farmers were in some very critical financial situations with arrimportant debts and no revenues. Most of ths failed to recover from this situation and after few years become deeply depressed. Between the years 1993 and 2006, it-is more than 150,000 indian farmers who committed suicide.
The farmers and the Indian government have been abused by international seeds company that have selfthem GMOs not adapted for their country.
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