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Graze Cattle on Indian BT Fields ? Trust Indian Dairy Products ? Think Again ! !
If you are reading this news item in English, chances are that you are lucky not to be grazing sheep and cattle on Indian BT cotton fields of Andhra Pradesh. However, if you are a non vegetarian, be ready for taking risk assessments for your own health if you eat meat from sheep grazed on Indian farms.
Indian Agriculture ministers have a very dubious record of justifying acceptable limits of pesticides in the milk that Indian mothers feed their new born babies.
Indian sheep have been dying of mysterious reasons, totally unexamined by Indian agricultural and scientific establishment. Maybe Indian agricultural research establishment is composed of only of scientists who are totally vegetarians.
Courtesy leading Indian daily Hindustan Times :
The Andhra Pradesh government has advised farmers not to allow animals to graze on Bt cotton fields after four institutes reported the presence of toxins in them.
Goats and sheep grazing on post-harvest Bt cotton fields were found dead in Warangal and Adilabad districts in 2006 and in the first two months of 2007.
The Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory, the Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, the Western Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory and the department of agriculture, NG Ranga Agriculture University found the presence of nitrates and nitrites, and residues of organophosphates in Bt cotton plants.
Dr L Mohan, director, Andhra Pradesh animal husbandry department, said: “The deaths have resulted in huge economic losses for farmers.”
Andhra Pradesh, which had earlier moved the Monopolistic and Restrictive Trade Practices tribunal against the high price of Bt seeds, said no bio-safety studies of Bt cotton seeds had yet been conducted.
MK Sharma, managing director, Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech India Ltd, makers of the genetically modified Bt cotton, said: “Bt cotton is being grown in nine states, and no such complaint has come except from a few villages in Andhra. We conducted safety studies before the trials and all Bt seeds were found to be safe.”
The Andhra government has informed the union ministry of environment and forests about its findings. The ministry has ordered a probe.
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1. I recently saw the interview on DoorDarshan of Shri Devinder Sharma, noted Indian agriculture policy analyst, and his comments regarding the New Thrust to Agricultural Policy and Prime Minister directives to Planning Commission for next 5 Year Plan.
2. I was happy to note that the rhetoric of Second Green Revolution was not being bandied about even though the suggestions of pushing ball into the court of states was seemingly indicative of the humility of the Emperor’s courtiers, in the face of twin failures of presiding over agrarian crisis and falling production levels.
One should not however be fooled by this new Congress strategy of trying to appear as if its role is a maganimous one, in terms of extending a helping hand to the states in propping up agricultural produce, as the alrm bells regarding inflationary pressures due to supply side constraints on agricultural front have begun disturbing the sleep of the Indian Sensex Minister and Cricket Minister.
But what essentially are the details of this new strategy of support to the states ?
And what role is Bahu Sharad Pawar playing in all this ?
This needs to be very closely followed.
We all know how Shri Pawar has publicly defended high pesticide levels in mother’s milk to Indian infants, and import of wheat from Australian farmers at prices higher than he is willing to give to Punjab farmers, as he bravely juggles the roles of managing Indian cricket team, the urban food supply chain and the agricultural output of Indian farmers.
One wonders when he has such multifaceted talents, why is he not able to set up a regime of sustainable crop insurance for Indian farmers.
3. The focus now seems to be on empty agricultural productivity targets, and how falling agricultural production, is seen as a gaping hole in the Strategies of the Urban Economists like Montek Singh Ahluwahlia and Chidambaram.
So who will do the farming, mahila kisans ?
The Left has been conspicuously silent especially after all the negative publicity that their Chief Minister in Bengal has managed to win for them via Singur and Nandigram. They have no role to play ?
I think time is ripe for building political networks of a new generation of youth leadership, who can take on such out of touch politicians presiding over Indian agricultural and agrarian debacles.
All the years of Mrs Indira Gandhi’s efforts to build the foundations of Green Revolution are being dismantled by three economists.
4. No mention was made of separating Food Ministry from Agriculture Ministry, much as I would like to see this development. In my opinion this is essential.
http://foodminister.blogspot.com/
I would also like to see the concept of a separate Kisan Budget taking shape. Afterall, if other businesses and companies have the right to balance their accounts books why not the Indian farmer ? – http://www.kisanbudget.blogspot.com/
5. I was also extremely disappointed to see the quality of arguments of Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices Prof T. Haque.
Was this luminary really serious about propagating the theory of interlinking of national rivers and canals and irrigating the hinterlands with surface water ?
Such patently absurd theoreticians are in charge of agricultural research, extension and praxis ?
No wonder Americans are being invited to reinvent Indian agriculture.
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