Monsanto Quit India on 9th August,2011

                   MONSANTO, QUIT INDIA!    NO CORPORATE CONTROL OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE!  Call for a Nation-wide DAY OF ACTION on Aug. 9, 2011 (Quit India Day) & KISAN SWARAJ WEEK, Aug. 9TH to Aug. 15TH 2011 Have you heard of this agri-business company called Monsanto? Monsanto is an [...]

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GM Free Bihar asks crop developers to quit Bt brinjal expert group

“No one can be judge in his own case” April 25th 2011, Patna: Ahead of a crucial meeting of a newly-constituted Expert Group to review Bt Brinjal, the GM-Free Bihar Movement has asked the members of the panel to recuse themselves from decision making as their presence was in conflict of interest. It also cited [...]

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Drought hits maize-growing farmers

Abhay Singh, TNN, Aug 15, 2010, 02.51am IST PATNA: Due to drought this year, the country might not be able to tap maize from the state’s three districts — Begusarai, Khagaria, and five blocks of northern Bhagalpur — whose maize yields are considered among the bests in the country. While maize has 108 industrial uses, including in the [...]

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Anti-GM Workshop in Bihar

A two-day Introduction-cum-Orientation Workshop on ‘Hamara Beej’ was conducted on October 5 and 6, 2009 at the prestigious A. N. Sinha Institute in Bihar’s capital Patna by Tara Foundation, in collaboration with Swiss Aid India. The chief guest to grace the occasion was Ms. Kavitha Kuruganti, who visited Patna for the orientation on Sustainable Agriculture [...]

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