Organically grown cotton is more profitable for farmers than Bt cotton, a new Greenpeace report said here on Tuesday.

“In the year 2009-10, farmers cultivating cotton through organic practices earned 200 percent more net income than farmers who grew genetically engineered cotton (Bt cotton),” the report said.

The report ‘Picking Cotton - The choice between organic and genetically-engineered cotton for farmers in South India’ is a comparative analysis of the two methods of agriculture among cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh.

The genetically engineered (GE) variety makes farmers more vulnerable to financial collapse due to high debts and increased costs of cultivation, it said....................Click for more

Source Web Page: The Hindu

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