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Transgenic Cotton Doesn't Have the Economic Edge PDF Print E-mail
Written by Erika Fredrickson   
Thursday, 27 March 2008

Transgenic cotton isn't even close to being a silver bullet. A recent study shows several types of Bt cotton and Roundup Ready cotton actually reduce income returns for farmers (measured by yield) by 30-40% over a four year period.

Transgenic cotton doesn't need pesticides so that lowers costs, but the costs for transgenic seed kits and fees makes up for that big time. Not only that, but the up-front cash for getting into transgenic cotton forces farmers to borrow money. When the returns don't pan out, farmers can go bankrupt. Massive transgenic cotton failures have contributed to an epidemic of farmer suicides in India.

Keep in mind, this isn't some study paid for by anti-GM non-profits or crazy radicals. Far from it. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Georgia and the US Department of Agriculture and just published in Agronomy Journal. The study also used non-transgenic cotton, and all types of cotton were grown to maximize yields.

In the end, it was organic cotton that won out. Worldwide supplies of organic cotton have been growing at an average rate of 50% over the past six years.

Source: Institute of Science in Society

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