USAID Pushes Monsanto GMO Corn on Nepal

The Nepalese government has teamed up with agricultural giant Monsanto to force farmers to use its GMO seeds. The strain, banned in several EU countries, will be used to substitute imports.

Published

about 1 year ago

Categories

World

Topics

Agriculture

Places

Nepal, Kathmandu

Companies

Monsanto Company

Tags

farming, agribusiness, us embassy, genetically modified crops, genetically modified food, usaid, gmo, maize, corn, monsanto

Transcript

like many in nepal rahm did not know the thing that i relied on agriculture chief survives and life is tough and again we have tickets have been the reason that killed at three am and wait for the vehicle that i insisted that market and we don't have a market price where vegetables and then we had this album it's also the price of the states no i think that growth may be one of nepal biggest problem but only about half well what it means is being produced and forty percent of the population is no marriage the united states agency for international development or us an idea he wants to lend a helping hand we have been trying to help the nepalese parliament she is being perceived historical production and production off the wall profits are armed and also increased productive indian owned by making him a little bit more competitive power of pardoning his costs down that help could come in the form of money funds to pay agricultural giant with does that much controversy at the end of the u s banking has been out once you create a partnership with one on telling any weak government imposed a means of production here while most agree that nepal needs to be drafted food insecurity problems critics say that maybe the solution to nepal agricultural issues should come from within the country and not abroad hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the u s embassy in katmandu just speak out against monsanto and that is not farmers but for how they don't have much should begin with and they'll have two completely reliant on one month sentence u s tank people each month on to tikrit if he will get higher yields but they could also be in use around for more now you celebrated your seventy two his second and then use that bike seats and so you know a lot of it might produce a bill that you did you get too used as missiles going down and then it means they have increased inputs the cousin has been hit with two years and do we buy seats on this company the casino certainly it's going down in the corporation's history is not exactly covered in quarantine and it's been sued by hundreds of thousands of farmers around the world convicted of dumping toxic waste in british landfill site and allegations of monopolistic position follow it every where farmers like ron first of all things that happened now should deal with ah yes and another on science and reason out if the debts and buy and that is a difficult science because i didn't have another job brady and get some extra money from that apartment but at the time of division whether this law that scott did you think nation prehistory their artsy katmandu nepal