Bt Cotton : How can Pakistan be left behind????

You can't expect anything better. India and Pakistan can only compete with eachother for bad things. If India goes for a nuclear bomb, Pakistan must follow. If Pakistan develops a long distance missile, India must try to beat it with a still more effective and powerful missile.

I am sure you can find many such examples. I sometimes wonder why isn't the political leadership and the intellingentsia in both the countries wise enough to look inwards and make genuine efforts to fight poverty and hunger. The elite in both the countries looks towards the west for solutions (often these are idiotic) for the problems they continue to face. If they had had the courage and wisdom to search within their borders for solutions to sustainable development, probably hunger and poverty in India and Pakistan would have been history by now. It therefore didn't come as shock to me when I read the news report saying that India and Pakistan had decided to trade in Bt cotton seeds. What else could you have expected from a sterile leadership that exists in science and agriculture.

The terrible agrarian crisis that India is faced with (and which continue to prevail in Pakistan for several decades now) emanates from the faulty paradigm of agriculture that has been thrust upon. Bt cotton is one such example of a regressive and destructive technology. Pakistan had simply turned a blind eye to the smuggling of Bt cotton seed from across the border. Knowing from the past experience, it was quite obvious that the underhand trade in Bt cotton seeds was being allowed simply to build up a market so that the trade could be legalised in the days to come.

Thanks to Bt cotton, more and more Indian cotton farmers have been sent to the gallows. All I can therefore say is that God now save the Pakistani cotton farmers !