Foreign capital is dictating the prevailing development agenda in
India. There is a deliberate strategy to make agriculture financially
non-viable for India’s small farms, to get most farmers out of farming
and to impose a World Bank sanctioned model of food production. The aim
is to replace current structures with a system of industrial (GM)
agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing
and retail concerns.
The aim here is not to repeat what has been
previously written on this. Suffice to say that the long-term plan is
for an overwhelmingly urbanised India with a fraction of the population
left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and
Walmart-type supermarkets that, going on current evidence (see 4th
paragraph from the end here), will offer a largely monoculture diet of
highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food based on crops
soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according
to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought
resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security.
