Pesticides do not decipher caste, gender or nationality. They will kill anybody irrespective of his or her origins.
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Is it possible for community video and radio to play this role?
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Media Interface

February 13, 2008 :  Mobile Biodiversity Festival 2008 Concluded

January 14, 2008 :  Mobile Biodiversity Festival 2008

January 5, 2008   Voice of the People

December 6, 2007 : BIOFUELS IN INDIA; WILL THEY DELIVER OR DESTROY

October 16, 2007 :  ALL INDIA MILLET NETWORK LAUNCHED

  A unique national initiative called All India Millet Network started by the Deccan Development Society, an NGO in the state was formally launched in Machnoor Village at Medak District today by the noted organic farmer and ideologue Dr Nammalwar of the Tamil Nadu Organic Farmers Movement.
August 13, 2007 : GOVERNMENT WARNED ABOUT THE DANGERS IN DOCUMENTING PEOPLE’S KNOWLEDGE
  Documentating traditional knowledge on biodiversity without adequate safeguards for protection of this knowledge will lead to a host of risks, the government has been cautioned by a national consultation on Documenting Diversity. It will offer the rich knowledge heritage of the Indian people to the predatory corporate interests, the Consultation has warned the Government.   The Consultation has also  demanded that any such documentation must be designed and led by communities, and be given legal and other protection against theft and misuse through ‘biopiracy’.
July 30, 2007 : FARMYARD TRUTHS AND INDUSTRY LIES
  Spin doctors are bent upon distorting the Bt cotton facts
The Genetic Engineering industry has started a huge campaign on the so called success of Bt cotton to bamboozle public opinion in the country. In the wake of a series of setbacks suffered as a consequence of a spate of refusals by the apex regulatory body Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of the Government of India, the biotech industry had to go for an overdrive for its survival. And it has predictably done so.