However, the promotion of BT cotton has brought with it a frightening cost of widespread debt-ridden farmer suicides. The introduction of GMO seeds has taken the commodification of seeds to a new level. There is ample research highlighting the links between the growing desperation of Indian farmers since they started using GMO seeds. It is problematic for a newspaper with the stature of NYTs to highlight the problem of farmer suicides in India without mentioning agribusinesses. Shiva points out how structural adjustment policies of the World Bank have been encouraging agribusiness firms like Monsanto to dominate the Indian seed market.

Source: The Express Tribune December 01, 2017 04:41 UTC