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C. S. Prakash
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Bangladesh farmers who grew GMO Bt brinjal made 55% more money than those who grew regular pesticide-needing type, according to a government study. India which actually developed this, stupidly banned it, depriving its farmers & consumers dhakatribune.com/business/2019/…
Link to the original paper by BD scientists: “Net returns per hectare were Tk. 179,602/ha for Bt eggplant as compared to Tk. 29,841/ha for non-Bt eggplant. Pesticides were applied 11 times to Bt eggplant where as it was 41 times to non- Bt eggplant for controlling sucking pests”
“The Bt eggplant farmers saved 61 percent of the pesticide cost compared to non-Bt eggplant farmers, experienced no losses due to fruit and shoot borer, and received higher net returns”
banglajol.info/index.php/BJAR… Thanks @greenfork
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C. S. Prakash
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Golden Rice finally released in Bangladesh! Planting 2 months away, Golden grains packed with lifesaving proVA should be in the markets later this year! Anti-GMO now be like “Oh no – a GMO is about to actually help people. We must stop this “at all costs.” theness.com/neurologicablo…
Golden rice is not about using chemicals, not patented, no big corporation is benefiting, the seeds are given freely to poor farmers, only goal is to improve nutrition for poor people, esp children, and to reduce their health burden. What more could you ask for? - @stevennovella
The actual situation so thoroughly flies in the face of all the anti-GMO lies and distortions that it causes them to panic. The anti-golden rice propaganda machine is going into full steam. Hopefully, however, reality has too much momentum to stop them - @stevennovella
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So next time someone says that there is a correlation between the use of #vaccines and #autism rate

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Wait a minute, autism causes vaccines? H.t Nat Johnson
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@AgBioWorld
Amazing story of the revival of Pawnee Eagle Corn - Grown by native Americans, thought to be extinct. One family had saved last 50 kernels taken with them when they were exiled from Nebraska to Oklahoma in the 1870s. “It tastes like almonds with cream”

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A farmer who grew the Pawnee Eagle and other heirloom corn 🌽. Much beauty in the biodiversity, once extinct it is lost forever. Gene banks and such farmers heroes! Vavilov is smiling! Watch at new.mousetrapmonday.com/videos/growing…
Deb Echo-Hawk, Pawnee tribe’s official ‘Keeper of the seeds’. When tribes were forced from state to state by the US govt - Trail of Tears - seed keepers brought their own strains of corn seeds with them, so when they settled again, they could grow food on their new land
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