VANDANA SHIVA: “Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers
lives.” These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside
pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra.
This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink
the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing
control over cotton seed supply — 95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is
now controlled by Monsanto.
