Afrol News, December 22, 2006 – "cotton producers in Burkina Faso, choked by U.S. subsidies"
In this section, a service Online News africéntrico AFROL Journalists describe the difficulty that the public firm's production of cotton in Burkina Faso SOFITEX had with the price cotton in the past four years. The article begins by describing a conference with a group of farmers in Burkina Faso. In response to news that international prices cotton production would not be profitable after a farmer, said, "but if what you say is true, then everyone will stop growing cotton. "This is a reasonable answer. What is more interesting is how the other farmers have responded to this remark." Farmers in other stood to applauding, drowning out the representative of the Sofitex, trying to get farmers to understand that there is nothing we can do about world cotton prices. "
A student returning from a recent pilgrimage in Burkina Faso, this fall, says that farmers are forced to grow cotton by the government. The people of Burkina Faso Gourmantche living in the jungle to live according to traditions that are tens of thousands of years. These traditions have been passed from generation to generation. Wisdom of these traditions can not reasonably be questioned by the success in preserving human life in harmony with the environment. Given the choice, it is very unlikely that the wise men and women according to produce crops that are not consistent with the preservation of life.
Cotton is a cash crop. The state-owned company Sofitex benefits of these crops, not traditional people. Can anyone honestly say that Gourmantche reasonable, or any another group of indigenous farmers in Burkina Faso traditional gladly cultivate this product?
The cause of the decline in cotton prices according Article in afrol News is subsidies to the cotton industry in the United States. This violation of WTO rules is the subject of the article seems to be an advocate of children in the diaspora and charities to help the colony in a fight that poor countries like Burkina Faso can not win.
The Government Burkina Faso and Sofitex base their hopes on the possibility of increasing the diversity of products made of cotton and as a solution. The alternative is the use of modified organisms (GMO) seeds that produce higher yields.
Is the use of these seeds should be of concern to a person think. What would result from the use of genetically modified organisms to produce cotton in Burkina Faso?
First, there is a risk to the balance of nature in one of the few that remain naturally fertile environments in the world. The bush of Burkina Faso concerning plants and animals that exist nowhere else in the world. Gourmantche Traditional healers and other traditional indigenous communities are able to cure almost all human diseases through the application of knowledge traditional use of these plants. To jeopardize the exhibitor wealth for the chimera of colonial science, it seems a logical step for any thinking person.
Second, SOFITEX, and traditional farmers to become dependent on the companies that produce GMOs. To ensure the profitability required to make production profitable Sofitex cotton farmers will have to buy seeds from multinational agribusiness corporations. These companies have great concern, the continued expansion of benefits. Once farmers reliant on patented seed GMOs are organisms that can not be grown by the license, and become a slave Sofitex producers seed. Sofitex not blow, as only a consumer product that farmers are forced to grow. Not be forced to buy GM seeds, farmers underway.
It is hoped farmers in Burkina Faso will have the opportunity to focus on food production for human consumption. Given the conditions which exist in many areas on the continent, it seems reasonable that the taste of people food is more important than feeding the pocket books of interest multinational company. Humans would also supply many opportunities for the Government of Burkina Faso to establish ties with its neighbors and create markets for surplus food that is produced by farmers whose primary motivation may be the preservation of life rather than preserving profit.
Rezib Tutsanai’i is a writer, technologist, teacher and social activist. He is also the Chicago Alternative Religions Examiner and a regular contributor to the philosophical journal, The Rising Firefly Magazine.
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