GMWatchWhy people oppose Bill Gates’ visit to Andhra Pradesh? Among other reasons, Gates’ promotion of corporate-backed seeds and agri-tech revives anxieties linked to the #GMO Bt cotton era and farmer indebtedness, when suicides spiked. https://www.metroindia.net/news/articlenews/why-people-oppose-bill-gates-visit-to-ap-35480
Farmers’ groups, scarred by decades of agrarian distress, view AI-driven ag as the next corporate Trojan horse. Andhra has experimented with zero-budget natural farming under the previous YSRCP regime; tech-heavy models from Seattle feel like a reversal favoring multinationals.
