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Farmers decide to cultivate BT cotton in place of rice [1]

Despite bumper production of rice in the current fiscal year farmers were not able to get proper price rate in return, were compelled to sell their yield at throw away prices and the disappointed farmers therefore, have decided to cultivate BT cotton instead of rice in future.

Publication Date: 
27/04/2009
Business Recorder (Pakistan) [2]
Tags:
Cotton [3], Farmers [4], Genetic Engineering [5], Pakistan [6]
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-recorder-pakistan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cotton
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/genetic-engineering
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pakistan