Kavitha Kuruganti - Meet David Runyon…and understand Monsanto some more!
March 21, 2012 Meet David Runyon, an "average-sized" farmer with 900 acres from Indiana, USA. He was in India recently and I had a chance to meet and discuss with him various issues related to American farming. He seemed nervous in the alien setting when I met him in Bangalore – "I had never traveled this far away from home, you know?", he said.
Why do Indian farmers need to know about stories like that of David Runyon's? Because it would give us a good glimpse of what lies in store for our farmers here in India, given the way things are being shaped in Indian agriculture at present, and the way Monsanto has already begun monopolizing the markets here, insidiously but very rapidly.
He is an American farmer who had only had a brief encounter with Monsanto while others have been sued and jailed by this corporation[1]!
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