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GMO can also be engineered to inherently be pest resistant and thus require significantly less pesticide
by tonmoy 5y ago
GMO can also be engineered to inherently be pest resistant and thus require significantly less pesticide
- primroot 5y ago"By 2018, farmers were spending an average of $23.58 per hectare on insecticide — 37% more than the pre-Bt levels." https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-twisted-trajectory-of-bt-cotton/article32566091.ece https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-twisted-trajector... Unfortunately the field isn't a lab, and making it look like a lab is very resource-intensive and environmentally damaging. "The cost of ignoring ‘desi’ varieties for decades has been high for India."
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoBut how does that allow our company to sell more pesticides?
- mikro2nd 5y agoThe resistance tends to last only a few generations before the pest population evolves past it. In areas where BT-Maize gets planted, Corn Ear Worm has been observed to evolve resistances in as few as 5 or 6 generations. You might think you've deployed a pest-free plant, but in reality all you've done is deploy an evolutionary pressure on the target population, and nature has had like 800-million years' practise out-evolving bad shit happening. Viewed in a systems light, the whole notion is little more than a grift; at best a temporary solution that takes longer to develop than ecosystems take to out-evolve.