DescriptionBt Cotton Hectares and Farmer Suicides Time Trend India.png
English: Bacillus thuringiensis cotton (also called Genetically Modified Cotton or GM Cotton or Bt cotton) acceptance and Farmer Suicides time trend in India.
Bt cotton was introduced in 2002. Crop coverage increased thereafter. The secondary Y-axis shows thousands of hectares dedicated to Bt cotton for the specific year.
Source: Figure A2, Page 49, Guillaume P. Gruère, Purvi Mehta-Bhatt and Debdatta Sengupta, International Food Policy Research Institute, Paper 808, Washington DC
For additional data and discussion, see Gruère, G. & Sengupta, D. (2011), Bt cotton and farmer suicides in India: an evidence-based assessment, The Journal of Development Studies, 47(2), 316-337.
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