Jatropha growing for fuel will impoverish Indian farmers, destroy forest
The German companies, Bayer CropScience und Daimler, together with the US firm, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), are planning largescale growing of the jatropha shrub in India, which could impoverish farmers and increase forest damage, reports the German Save the Rainforest organisation.
Jatropha delivers an oil suitable to fuel vehicles.
The plant is to be grown by small-scale farmers under contract.
Bayer provides the technology, the farmers bring in their land and labour.
The farmers bear all the risk in this agrofuel venture. Through adhesion contracts they're in danger of losing their land and important natural spaces of being destroyed.
Farmers losing land would have no choice but to move on into the last remaining forests.
The Bayer corporation in Leverkusen, near Cologne, is one of the biggest destroyers of biodiversity by continuing to pursue industrialised farming with genetically manipulated organisms, pesticides and patents.
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Re: Jatropha growing for fuel will impoverish Indian farmers,
After a couple of hundred years of capitalism and colonialism this will not impoverish indian farmers .
The peasantry is already living in capitalist created dire poverty.
This sharecropping will only make that impoverishment worse and intensify environmental destruction for first world profits .
Some for example many cotton farmers find suicide their only way out, as western petitions will have little effect ,others will turn to the growing Maoist Naxalites movements .
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