[lbo-talk] GM rice - top of the crops

[Michael Perelman]

Bigness hurts smallness.  The large farmers get the water, for example.  The GR also 
required small farmers to go into debt to participate.  They pay very high interest 
rates.  They are not given adequate training about pesticides.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:08:05AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> a very common critique of "modern" crops (including the now-passé
> "Green Revolution" crops) is that their introduction involves
> increasing economies of scale and other advantages of bigness, along
> with the replacement of farm labor with machinery of various sorts.
> This means it's quite possible that a larger percentage of the rural
> population can't afford the new crops, even if the total production
> rises.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Devine
> "living a life of quiet desperation -- but always with style!"
> 
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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