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Old 12-03-2003, 04:08 PM
Jim Webster
 
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Default Andhra Pradesh will compensate cultivators of Bt cotton crops


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INDIA'S AP TO COMPENSATE CULTIVATORS OF BT COTTON CROPS

DATELINE: HYDERABAD, March 11
Asia Pulse March 11, 2003
Northern Territory Regional

Andhra Pradesh government Monday promised to compensate the farmers
whose Bt cotton crops failed even as the Opposition demanded that
Monsanto Corporation, which introduced the crop, be "blacklisted".


nice to see that someone has a government which supports agriculture.


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Jim Webster

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