Seeds of Suicide: The Ecological and Human Costs of Globalisation of Agriculture

1996 Agriculture acres agencies agricultural biodiversity Andhra Pradesh arthies Bajra banks Bhatinda biopiracy Biotechnology Bollgard bollworm breeders Bt cotton Cargill certified seeds chemicals claims commercial committed suicide cost of cultivation cotton crop crop failure debt district ecological farmers farming fertilisers field trials gene genetically engineered crops genetically modified germplasm globalisation GMOs gram Green Revolution growers Hect hectares hybrid seed impact increased India inputs insecticides insects isolation distance Karnataka Labour lakh land landraces loans Mahyco maize managing director Mandal monoculture Monsanto multinational companies Navdanya non-Bt open pollinated open pollinated varieties organic paddy Panchayat patent pearl millet pesticides plant private sector private seed public sector seed Punjab quintals Reddy resistance season seed companies Seed Corporations seed industry seed production seed sector seed supply sell Singh S/o sorghum spray sunflower thousand hectares toxin transgenic crops village Warangal Warangal district