All the above prescriptions are intended to profit from agri-food business , agri-business and agribiotech business by the giant corporations , invested by imperialist financial organisations and fund management institutions , besides the imperialist agri-business global corporations .
Synthetic fertilizers contribute to overall green house gas emissions and are the primary source of nitride oxide emissions . Producing nitrogen fertilizers requires 3-5 % of the world ’ s possible gas . They also make farmers and importing nations dependent on volatile prices on international markets and are a major cause of rising foodprices globally . Toxic and damaging synthetic fertilizers are not a feasible way forward . Yet Bill Gates prescribes such a remedy that needed to increase agricultural productivity and address hunger !
In 1970 itself in his famous court statement Com . T . Nagi Reddy had amply exposed the predatory nature of green revolution imposed by imperialist USA on India and other developing countries and warned against its perils . It did very little to reduce the number of hungry people in the world or to ensure equitable and sufficient access to food . It created many other problems from ecological issues like long-term soil degradation to socio-economic ones like increased inequality and indebtedness ( which has been a major contributor to the epidemic of farmer suicides in our country ). The ‘ green revolution ’ entrenched seed and agri-chemical giants in global agriculture and ensured farmers become dependent on their proprietary and global chains . Still Bill Gates prescribes to replicate ‘ green revolution ’!
The climate-resilient seeds are already in existence and being developed by farmers and traded through informal seed markets . But instead of encouraging these practices and developments Bill Gates prescribes the idea of so-called ‘ better seeds ’ to promote gaint GM seed 14 corporations and their loot in the global seed business in the name of ‘ better seeds ’ and ‘ technology ’!
There are many tangible , ongoing proposals and projects that work to boost productivity and food-security from bio-fertilizer and bio-pesticide manufacturing facilities , to agroecological farmer training programmes , to experimentation with new soil – management and water techniques , low-input farming systems and pestdeterring plant species . But Bill Gates instead of encouraging these endeavours , has chosen to ridicule these efforts and is presenting his preferred high-tech solutions including genetic engineering , new breeding technologies and digital agriculture which have in fact failed to reduce hunger or increase food access as promised . Agri-Biotech Sector and Agri- Firms and their Monopoly : Today we are witnessing rising food prices . Besides the financial funds , investment banks , the food crisis is engineered by global grain trade conglomerates like Cargil , Lowis Dreyfus , ADM and Bunge and they are profiteering .
Agri firms like Bayer , Syngenta ( Chem China ) and Corteva are regarding the present circumstances as an opportunity to promote their agenda and seek commercialization of unregulated and improperly tested Genetically Engineered ( GE ) technologies . With false narratives that their hybrid seeds and their GE seeds along with their agri-chemicals are essential for feeding a growing global population they are promoting their business . This agenda is being orchestrated by vested interests and career scientists , lobby groups and displaced politicians and journalists . Scientists like professor Michal Hudson of Cornell Alliance for science funded by Gates Foundation are advocating for GE seeds and chemicals with baseless and absurd claims . They are refusing to acknowledge that genuine food security and food sovereignty can be achieved without proprietary products .
The reality of food insecurity is being twisted to serve the agenda of imperialist agri-biotech sector industry . The regulatory bodies and institutions supposedly set-up to serve the public interest are being placed under intense pressure or subverted .
Big biotech corporations like Bayer and Corteva which together already control 40 % of the global commercial seed market are now trying to cement dominance . These companies are seeking to increase their control over future of food and farming by extensively patenting plants and developing a new generation of Genetically Modified Organisations ( GMOs ). They are moving to patent plant genetic information that can occur naturally . The claim all plants with those genetic traits as their “ invention ”. Such patents on plants would restrict farmer ’ s access to seeds and impede breeders from developing new plants as both would have to ask for consent and pay fees to biotech companies .
Corteva has applied for 1,430 patents on new GMOs while Bayer has applications for 119 patents . These patents would also cover plants which naturally present the same characteristics as the GMOs they engineered . Thus they profit from farmers and plant breeders . For e . g . Corteva holds a patent for a process modifying the genome of a cell using the CRISPER technique and claims the intellectual property to any cells , seeds and plants that include the same genetic information whether in broccoli , maize , soy , rice , wheat , cotton , barley or sunflower .
In India with the collusion of the government with global agribusiness , GM mustard is allowed and permitted for commercial cultivation with the approval by the GEAC the regulatory body despite many objections that the potential approval is unsafe , unneeded and unwanted .
Until mid-1990s though India was virtually self-sufficient in edible oils , the then import tariffs were reduced leading to an influx of cheap ( subsidized )
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