Most of Monsanto's methodologies are ill-suited to the problem of crop yields in India. The main issue is, India is tropical and subtropical land: a hugely diverse place in terms of growing environments - soil types, geology, hydrology, pests, infrastructure, weather, etc. Monsanto's bread and butter is a genetic monoculture assisted by mechanized procedures developed in the flat, temperate United States. To put it bluntly, fuck that shit. India needs to maintain its seed stock biodiversity as a given in any solution that stands a chance of really (pun intended) taking root. It should remain a net importer of technology and "know-how", but change the charter to match what it needs, and demand a lot more fine-grained collaboration with farmers when writing that charter.
That's going to be very hard, in the Indian bureaucracy though.
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Date: 6/4/16 02:49 (UTC)Most of Monsanto's methodologies are ill-suited to the problem of crop yields in India. The main issue is, India is tropical and subtropical land: a hugely diverse place in terms of growing environments - soil types, geology, hydrology, pests, infrastructure, weather, etc. Monsanto's bread and butter is a genetic monoculture assisted by mechanized procedures developed in the flat, temperate United States. To put it bluntly, fuck that shit. India needs to maintain its seed stock biodiversity as a given in any solution that stands a chance of really (pun intended) taking root. It should remain a net importer of technology and "know-how", but change the charter to match what it needs, and demand a lot more fine-grained collaboration with farmers when writing that charter.
That's going to be very hard, in the Indian bureaucracy though.