Chihuahua, Chih., October 20. State FOs will burst in plots where the planting of transgenic corn and destroyed to prevent the species native to the mountains Tarahumara contamination with laboratory strains made by corporations that seek to monopolize the production of basic grains by patents.
The Frente Democrático Campesino, El Barzon and environmental groups warned the entity that will frustrate all attempts to harvest grains that are not natural and severely condemned the guarantee provided for planting by the Ministries of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) and Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) on 15 October.
Dozens of farmers from various municipalities today blocked the avenue of the capital Aldama Chihuahua, opposite the palace of government, and set up camp inside the building in protest against the authorization for the experimental cultivation of transgenic corn, which they said threatens food sovereignty.
demanded the intervention of Governor Jose Reyes Baeza Terrazas to discourage the planting of GM crops and stop the proceedings initiated by Mennonites and Mormons in Cuauhtemoc, Namiquipa, Bachiniva, Galeana, Nuevo Casas Grandes, which promote GM products.
Victor Quintana, local deputy of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), said that action against the new model will go beyond agriculture and radicalize Chihuahua, since the initial authorization of SAGARPA and SEMARNAT two of 35 projects heralds the introduction of GM crops in other states. Mennonite settlers
agricultural valley in 2008 Cuauhtémoc requested permission to measure the drag of pollen in two plots where the MNC used Monsanto seeds in order to advance the introduction of transgenic varieties.
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