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coin | 4 months ago

The data doesn’t support your claim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India#G...

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RobotToaster|4 months ago

> "A 2015 study in Environmental Sciences Europe found that farmer suicide rates in India's rainfed areas were "directly related to increases in Bt cotton adoption." Factors leading to suicide included "high costs of BT cotton" and "ecological disruption and crop loss after the introduction of Bt cotton.""

The contradicting studies were mostly produced by "International Food Policy Research Institute, an agriculture policy think tank formed to promote the adoption of innovations in agricultural technology, based in Washington, D.C." which seems like an obvious conflict of interest.

pfdietz|4 months ago

Isn't gray market Bt cotton widely used in India outside patent protection? (Or was, given patents likely expired by now.)