I saw the movie called Bitter Seeds in my environmental class. The film was about the problems of agriculture in India. The film also talked about the suicide rate, how high it is compared to our country. It is said that every 30 minutes a farmer commits suicide. In India, the economy isn't great, so they opted for seeds that were more expensive. The culture is completely different from ours, they celebrate Pola, which is the bull festival, they do rituals when something bad happens. Most of the seeds rotted and did not receive enough water, which caused the seeds not to germinate, eventually the plants died and the farmers killed themselves. The people selling the seeds wanted more money than they should actually cost. Banks rarely lend money to people, they had to go to a loan shark. Loan sharks were basically crooks because they charged people 7% to 10% interest a month to farm seven acres. I think Indian farmers should be able to get loans from the bank at a higher percentage rate so that they don't have to go to loan sharks and get ripped off. The economy is really bad in some parts of India, people usually don't use technology, the way they cook is unsanitary and the houses are not modern. Indian farmers used seeds that required only cow poop as fertilizer. Jai BT seeds created by Monsanto require two different fertilizers. Jai BT seeds are more expensive than old seeds, so farmers have to pay extra for fertilizers and seeds. Jai BT seeds did not germinate in the soil and rotted, causing a lot of stress to the farmer. Farmers pay a high amount for land. If his farm doesn't grow, the farmer gets no money and in the end... half paper... The Foundation for Science, Technology and Education has sued Monsanto in the Supreme Court of India and Monsanto was unable to begin commercial sales of its Bt cotton seeds until 2002. And, following India's parliamentary committee's damning report on Bt crops in August 2012, the Supreme Court-appointed panel of technical experts recommended a 10-year moratorium on the field. trials on all genetically modified foods and cessation of all ongoing trials on transgenic crops. But it had already changed Indian agriculture. Monsanto's seeds, the destruction of alternatives, the harvesting of super-profits in the form of royalties and the growing vulnerability of crops have created an environment of debt, suicide and suffering that is driving the epidemic of farmer suicides in India. This systemic control has been intensified with Bt cotton. This is why most suicides occur in the cotton area.