What is good for business however is not good for agriculture. Big Agritech cannot provide genuine solutions to the agrarian problems it has created with its ‘Green Revolution’. For example, agriculture inIndia’s Punjab state (agritech’s original poster boy of the ‘Green Revolution’) is facing an inevitable crisis, in terms of pesticide use causing cancer, falling crop yields and groundwater depletion . The model it has adopted is unsustainable. But this is a global phenomenon, as indicated by what is also happening in Argentina and the deleterious health impacts of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the ever-increasing, widespread and uncontrolled use of toxic chemical inputs . What Big Agritech cannot get away with in places like Europe, it does so elsewhere.
Office of Research and Development. In a recent article, he writes that chemical companies that historically have produced DDT, PCBs, bovine growth hormone, Agent Orange, glyphosate products and, more recently, neonicotinoids have inserted themselves squarely into the seed crop production component of the world’s food supplies.