GMO Bt eggplant has FAILED for the second year in Bangladesh. The cultivation of GMO Bt eggplant in several districts has cost the farmers their fortunes again this year as the plants have either died out prematurely or fruited very insignificantly compared to the locally available varieties, reports United News of Bangladesh. Md Abul Hayat, who is respected as a successful farmer in the Dhanua village in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi said, "Most of the saplings [of Bt eggplant] have died. The plants are prone to diseases. The officials said it’s due to bacterial attack and prompted by irrigation and soil-type." Pointing to a non-GMO eggplant field beside his GMO Bt eggplant one, Hayat posed the question, "If irrigation and soil-type had been a problem, why the local [non-GMO eggplants] on my other field had not been affected?"
The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), which is distributing GMO Bt eggplant saplings, must cease this cruel experiment at the expense of Bangladeshi farmers. The chief promoter of the failed GMO Bt eggplant, BARI Director General Rafiqul Islam Mondol, should resign. GMO Bt eggplant was found to be toxic in Mahyco’s (subsidiary of Monsanto) own tests.
GMO Bt EGGPLANT: MONSANTO'S TOXIC FAILURE.