The Haunting Scourge of Green Revolution
Our rulers have been incessantly harping about ‘ Green revolution ’ that it had brought about development in the Indian agricultural sector .
When we critically examine about it , this green revolution was nothing but an economic programme prompted and promoted by American imperialism and implemented in India in the name of American aid for the development agriculture in India . This ‘ American aid ’ was delivered through world-bank . The design for the development was finalised by the world-bank .
Though the so-called development brought about by this ‘ green revolution ’ in India is not clear and visible , it became a certainty , that it had developed ‘ a profitable demand ’ by the Indian agricultural sector for obtaining additional agriculture goods from industrialised countries , particularly from America . It had created an immense market for their industrial goods the most important them are pesticides and herbicides . At the same time Indian agricultural sector is driven in to severe crises .
But again our rulers are their supportive ‘ experts ’ prescribe launching of another ‘ green revolution ’ as a panacea for the severe crises in to which it was pushed .
In fact with the implementation of the imperialist globalisation policies in India the crises of agriculture sector is far more worsened . Especially the peasantry have been in a forced distress and perpetual misery , due to the
January - 2018 polices implemented in our country at the behest of World Bank and other imperialist monitory organisations that hand in glove with foreign capital including foreign private capital , in promoting its vested interests .
Agricultural production is made non-profitable and non viable due to the cause of abnormally enhanced cost of agricultural input goods such as seeds , fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides all of which are under the control and management of market forces dominated by foreign private capital . This led to bankruptcy of middle , small and petty farmers and their inevitable suicides unable to meet their financial requirements and demands .
While the enforced suicides of farmers has been one of the evil consequences of Green revolution in India , yet another far-more cruel consequence of green revolution has come in to light . It is the pesticide poisoning deaths of farmers and agricultural labours throughout our country . Even with the available statistics of the pesticide / herbicide deaths that occurred within the month of October , the imposed evil is menacing . Pesticide exposure deaths in considerable number are being reported in the media after the media exposure of pesticides related deaths at Yavatmal district in Maharashtra .
Even prior to the reportage of those deaths in Maharashtra , for the past 40 years such deaths have been occurring in all parts our country . But they were not reported or the administration and media are insensitive to such pesticide killings . They are simply over looked by the administration and governments as matter of no importance . This disregard from the governments and administration was neither due to ignorance , innocence or lack of understanding . On the contrary it is due to the nefarious nexus between the administration and the pesticides / herbicides business community - a result of the unpatriotic and anti-national subservience of our rulers and ruling-classes with the imperialist foreign-capital and its bigbusiness .
It a shocking fact that 35 % of the input cost borne by the peasants of our country is for purchase of pesticides / herbicides alone . This fact shows how the ‘ green revolution ’ has developed a profitable demand and market to the foreign ( imperialist ) pesticide / herbicide business in India at the cost of agricultural sector in India and the lives of its petty and poor farmers and agricultural labourers .
It is apparent that in reality the pesticides / herbicides business has bloomed and thriving for the foreign capital , making it a business of killer-merchants .
The Bt . cotton seed which is touted be tolerant to the pests / weeds and sold on grand scale by the American Giant seed company Monsanto and its subsidiaries and Indian collaborators proved to be false and deceptive . For almost 2 years the Bt . cotton seeds are being infested with pests and weeds forcing the farmers to use
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