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De:
Luiz Meira <luizmeira@aleph.com.br>
Data: Ter Out 12, 1999 5:41
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Assunto: [gen-ocidio] hybrid seeds as terminators, archive 1905
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De:
Rick Roush <rroush@waite.adelaide.edu.au>
Data: Ter Out 12, 1999 5:26
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Assunto: hybrid seeds as terminators, archive 1905
Para: Roberto Verzola <rverzola@phil.gn.apc.org>
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Hybrid seeds provide increased yields, enough so that growers find it worth
their while to pay the extra price for hybrid corn in some parts of Africa
and for hybrid cotton in India. In fact, hybrid cotton seed is not used in
the US and Australia because it is too labor intensive to produce. There
is nothing wrong with hybrid seed if you save it, you just lose the yield
increases.
Should we now campaign against Indian cotton seed hybrids as terminators
exploiting the small Indian cotton grower?
Rick
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>Farhad Mazhar of UBINIG (Bangladesh) has rightly pointed out that
>hybrid seeds sold by seed companies are effectively doing what the
>Terminator is meant to do -- to take away from the farmers the right
>to save and sow their own seeds.
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>All the arguments against terminator technology apply to hybrid seed
>technologies too. In effect, hybrid seeds are low-tech terminator
>seeds.
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>Roberto Verzola
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