GMOs Will Destroy Indian Agriculture and Harm the Health of 1 Billion Indians and Their Animals
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GMOs Will Destroy Indian Agriculture and Harm the Health of 1 Billion Indians and Their Animals

Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal to commercialise herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard will destroy not just Indian mustard agriculture but citizens’ health.

Agrarian Distress, Sluggish Job Market: Five Charts to Understand the Roots of the Maratha Agitation
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Agrarian Distress, Sluggish Job Market: Five Charts to Understand the Roots of the Maratha Agitation

Education has led to high mobility, especially in the poorer Marathwada region, but opportunities remain few alongside dwindling incomes, shows a data analysis.

Do Trees Have Consciousness?
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Do Trees Have Consciousness?

Underlying forest management planning and decisions are considerations about what a forest really is. What are trees? Can they be reasonably considered to have consciousness? If there is any possibility trees have consciousness of any sort, then it brings up questions about what is justifiable to do to them in our efforts to “manage” forests.

Indian Farmers Interest has Been Surrendered to the US to Ensure G20 Success
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Indian Farmers Interest has Been Surrendered to the US to Ensure G20 Success

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced on Sept 8, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit, that India had agreed to reduce tariffs on certain U.S. products, including chickpeas, lentils, almonds, walnuts, apples, frozen chicken-turkey-duck, and several other agricultural products.

Wooing Corporate Interests? Nagaland Move to ‘Massively Rely’ on Non-Native Palm Oil
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Wooing Corporate Interests? Nagaland Move to ‘Massively Rely’ on Non-Native Palm Oil

A report on a virtual meeting organised by the civil rights organisation Kezekevi Thehou Ba says that the “bid to push oil palm cultivation in the North-East” has rung “alarm bells” in the ecologically fragile and biodiversity rich region.