The myth of abundant farm labour

The extreme recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee (TEC)—appointed by the Supreme Court of India to look into the adoption of biotech enhanced GM crops—have come in for heavy criticism from several farmer organisations, experts and academicians. It is rather disturbing to digest the proposal of a TEC that would suggest a blanket ten-year moratorium on field trials of biotech enhanced seeds and crops, and even more surprising, the ban on field trials of herbicide-tolerant crops (HTCs).

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