Navdanya travelled to the cotton growing Malwa belt of Punjab to report the damage done by the whitefly on Bt cotton in October ’15. Despite spraying pesticides 10- 15 times, 1.2 million acres of cotton was destroyed by the whitefly, a common pest. This short film is an attempt to make the pain of the Bt Cotton farmers be heard and make the lives our farmers’ lives matter.
Film and production by Shaani Singh and Indra Shekhar Singh | Edited by Roanna Rahman.
Links: In Focus — Events and Actions — Social Media — Navdanya Community Seed Banks
Yield | Testimonies on the suicides of Indian farmers from Vidarbha
In focus
Press Release: Illegal Roundup Ready Flex Bt Cotton and Carcinogen Round-up should be banned
Navdanya, 30 November 2017
Peddling Poisons, & Selling Seeds Of Suicide
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 24 November 2017
Activists seek NHRC probe into ‘farmer suicides epidemic’
Business Standard, 10 October 2017
Monsanto illegally Introduces Round Up Resistant GMO Cotton in India
Navdanya, 7 April 2017
Satyagraha in ‘post-truth’ era
By Dr Vandana Shiva –The Asian Age, 27 February 2017
BT Cotton Failure Case Witnesses from India and Burkina Faso
The Hague, October 2016, Monsanto Tribunal and People’s Assembly – Dr Krishan Bir Chaudhary, president of Bharat Krishak Samaj, India’s largest farmer organisation, and Ali Tapsoba de Goamma, from Burkina Faso, founding member of TERRE A VIE and Coordinator of the International GMO Resistance Meetings (RIR-OGM) share the experience of the effect of BT Cotton cultivation in their respective countries.
Extract from “Insight : Task Force On Olympics To Be Set Up & The GM Crops Debate (27/08/2016)”
It is time for Monsanto to Quit India
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Indian Express, 26 August 2016
Why the government is right in controlling the price of Monsanto’s Bt cotton seeds
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Scroll.in, 22 August 2016
The Reason For Farmer Suicides in Punjab Lies Not in the Whitefly But in Bt Cotton
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Citizen, 17 July 2016
‘Udta Punjab’ Opens Our Eyes To Green Revolution’s Toxic Legacy
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Quint, 22 June 2016
Rogue companies must be stopped from taking over India’s rich biodiversity
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Indian Express, 4 June 2016
Clash of civilisations: India’s ancient love for nature is losing out to modern disregard for it
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Scroll.in, 31 May 2016
Seeds, Biodiversity and IPRs
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 26 May 2016
Monsanto Losing Ground: India Rethinks Rules Over Sale of GM Cotton Seeds
Sputnik News, 21 May 2016
Seeds of suicide
by Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 19 May 2016
India: Bt cotton failure forces govt to promote native seeds
Live Mint, 5 April 2016
Monsanto vs Indian Farmers
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 27 March 2016
Seed swaraj (Seed Sovereignty)
By Dr Vandana Shiva, The Asian Age, 22 March 2016
Make Monsanto pay
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 23 February 2016
Punjab whitefly epidemic: We need a new agriculture policy
By Dr Vandana Shiva — The Indian Express, 15 October 2015
Pests, Pesticides and Propaganda: the story of Bt Cotton
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 10 October 2015
Anna Swaraj: The only way we can rescue Indian farmers from debt and suicide
By Dr Vandana Shiva — Scroll.in, 10 October 2015
Exterminating seeds put farmers on the rack
By Antonio Storto, eastwest.eu n. 48, 2012
Events and Actions:
Stop Monsanto’s crimes! Indian farmers call for ‘Monsanto Quit India’
New Delhi, 17 August 2016
Navdanya partners with VNSSM and CICR to make Maharashtra suicide, poison and debt free
Navdanya, 18 June 2016
A Call to Join Jaivik Kranti (Living Revolution) for Anna Swaraj 2020
New Delhi, 21 May 2016
Navdanya Solidarity meeting in Bathinda
Chugge Kalan, Bathinda, 24 January 2016
NGO shows the way to debt-ridden farmers
by Sanjeev Singh Bariana – The Tribune, 25 January 2015
Prakash Kardaley Memorial Lecture: Environmentalist pitches for organic farming
By Express News Service | Pune | The Indian Express, 20 December 2015
Shiva said that BT cotton has increased the problems of farmers and hence, they have decided to go back to the original cotton. However, finding seeds for the indigenous variety of cotton has become a major issue. “The region has the finest cotton research institute of the country, and yet no new variety of cotton has been introduced,” Shiva rued. Her organisation Navdhanya has decided to start a seed bank in the region from this year onwards.
BT Cotton Seeds of Suicide
by Indra Shekhar Singh, 16 December 2016
Dr Vandana Shiva joins farmers’ protest at Jantar Mantar
Farmers hold protest against agro-chemical cost
Press Trust of India, 29 October 2015
NEWS TAG: BT COTTON
