2018 6-8 April BEEJOTSAV-BIODIVERSITY @ NAGPUR

Dear friends,

We are happy to invite you to our 6^th year of BEEJOTSAV-BIODIVERSITY at Nagpur from 6^th to 8^th April 2018, a carnival of organic food, foodgrains, spices and the celebration of the sustainable, eco-friendly life style, visibility to seed saver and pastoral communities.

We, at BEEJOTSAV, are a varied group of organic farmers, seed savers, urban farmers and consumers who have been showcasing organic food for last 5 years.. We try to link grass roots farmers and the urban consumer.

We believe that safe, chemical-free food and healthy Biodiversity is the right of every citizen and our movement is a step towards making it available to the consumer.

We invite you to attend it and you can even exhibit your products by taking a stall. 

Festival date: 6^th, 7^th & 8^th April 2018

Time: 10 am to 10 pm

Venue: Mure Memorial Lawns, Amravati Road, Near Variety Square, Nagpur.

Stall size: 8’ X 8’

Stall charges: Rs 2,500/- (for 3 days, doesn’t include food and accommodation charges)

To book your stall(s) please fill up the form here:- https://goo.gl/forms/S5OuIXIbWXHyKHkn1

To register yourself please fill up the form here :- https://goo.gl/forms/khGSyomWRPoq7YZR2

For Stalls:- After filling up the form, please wait for confirmation from our team. After confirmation please go ahead with payment, you can take the account details from any of the following coordinator.

Beejotsav Coordinators:-

Akash Naoghare 9766912745 anaoghare@gmail.com

Sajal Kulkarni  9881479239  sajalskulkarni@gmail.com 

Ashwini Aurangabadkar 9890515814 ashwini.aurangabadkar@gmail.com

NEWS : West African Country Dumps Monsanto’s GM Cotton, Seeks Compensation

Joining the expanding list of GMO rejections
by Christina Sarich
Posted on June 10, 2015

Due to ‘disappointing yields and poor quality cotton fiber,” the country of Burkina Faso in West Africa is ditching Monsanto’s genetically modified cotton.

Jeune Afrique reports that Interprofessional Cotton in Burkina Faso has decided to phase out the use of Monsanto’s GMO cotton seeds over the next three years. This is a group of cotton farmers, banks, research institutions, private stakeholders and the government. It isn’t just cotton farmers that are complaining about Monsanto’s GM cotton, though.

 

Interprofessional Cotton members include the Société burkinabè des fibres textiles (Sofitex), Faso Coton, and the Société cotonnière du Gourma (Socoma, subsidiary of the French group Geocoton).
All of these groups have complained that Monsanto’s GM cotton did not produce quality cotton fiber, and farmers have experienced lower yields than with non-GM cotton. The group will also seek compensation from Monsanto for lower yields they experienced since the 2008 growing season.
The group is denouncing its contract with Monsanto due to the lower quality performance of the GM cotton, and also lower yields.

Advocates of GM cotton state that they have increased agricultural production by more than US$98 billion and saved an estimated 473 million kilograms of pesticides from being sprayed in the US, but critics question their environmental, social, and economic impacts – with good reason. Among the complaints are that GM cotton has caused superweeds, and driven Indian farmers to suicide.

Genetically modified organisms and crops are so controversial that communities, states, and even entire nations are at the very least attempting to ban or suspend these creations – with some areas having notable success. A small example within the U.S. can be seen when a federal judge in southern Oregon recently decided to uphold Jackson County’s ban on genetically engineered crops after two alfalfa farms requested that the ban be blocked.

Another example can be seen with the nation Hungary, which could be the first to introduce the new European Union regulations allowing countries to ban the cultivation of GMO crops.
As time goes on, you can expect to see more suspensions and even bans on Monsanto’s GMOs as well as the company’s herbicidal chemical creations meant to be sprayed on GMO crops.

SOURCE: http://naturalsociety.com/west-african-country-dumps-monsantos-gm-cotton-seeks-compensation/#ixzz3dJCzeT4s