Why Are Farmers Defying A Ban To Sow GM Seeds in Maharashtra?

The Wire 2021-06-03

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Around 1,500 farmers gathered in Maharashtra’s Akola district on Monday in a show of civil disobedience to sow the banned Herbicide-tolerant Bt cotton in the presence of a large police contingent. A farmer, Lalit Patil Bahale, sowed the seeds on his two-acre field in Akot.

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