Plants Breeders Right Bill: Farmer Shackling Law
Posted on August 13, 2016 Press Release During the press conference PKMT national coordinator Raja Mujeeb, provincial coordinator sindh Ali Nawaz…
Decent Wages for Agricultural Laborers!
Posted on October 17, 2016 Press Release: World Hunger Day The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nation holds…
Farmers asked to avoid corporate agriculture
Posted on March 14, 2017 M Haleem Asad Speakers at a national conference named “Sustaining Lives and Livelihood: Fighting for Food…
Statement on behalf of Farmers Constituency during UNEP Senior Official Meeting
Posted on September 7, 2017 Agenda Item 8 Wali Haider, Roots for Equity, Pakistan Thank you Mr. Chairman! I am Wali…
Destruction of the Cotton Harvest: A Golden Opportunity for Transnational Corporations?
Posted on November 14, 2015 Dr. Azra Talat Sayeed In Pakistan, newspapers have been rife with news on the pink bollworm…
Cotton crop disaster: opportunity for global seed corporations
Posted on November 23, 2015 AZRA TALAT SAYEED NEWSPAPERS have been rife with reports about a pink bollworm attack on the…
Experts question approval of GM corn, cotton to be sold in market
Posted on April 4, 2016 JAMAL SHAHID ISLAMABAD: The government has approved over 100 varieties of genetically modified corn and cotton…
Controversy over commercial use of GM corn seeds
Posted on April 4, 2016 ASHFAK BOKHARI A HEATED controversy is raging over whether or not the government has given a…
RISKING AGRI-OUTPUT: BIOSAFETY BODY APPROVES GM SEEDS WITHOUT CONSULTATION
Posted on May 20, 2016 The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2016 Shahzad Anwar ISLAMABAD: Commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) seeds, which could…
Farmers Reject GM Cotton/BT Cotton
Posted on September 1, 2016 Press Release August 31, 2016 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity had organized…