Farmers Buying Cotton Seeds at a Shop in Warangal (IMAGE)

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Farmers Buying Cotton Seeds at a Shop in Warangal

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Farmers buying cotton seeds at a shop in Warangal. Visible behind them are a few of the many hybrid seeds available at the shop. The man in the middle is paying Rs. 1600 a pack of RCH2-Bt (4 times the cost of conventional seed). When asked why he had chosen RCH2-Bt, he said it was what other farmers were buying.

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Courtesy Glenn Davis Stone.

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