The Centre is conniving with multi-national companies to convert farmers into slaves, he said.
DMK president M.K. Stalin on Monday urged Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami not to allow field trials of BT brinjal in Tamil Nadu, which is one of the eight States selected by the Centre for the exercise.
“There is a fear among farmers that BT brinjal will pose a danger to traditional farmers and cause severe consequences in the farm sector. It is highly condemnable that the Centre is trying to impose genetically-modified crops on farmers,” he said in a statement.
Recalling the decision taken by the erstwhile UPA government to ban BT brinjal, Mr. Stalin accused the BJP government of reversing the decision.
“The Centre is conniving with multi-national companies to convert farmers into slaves.”
Mr. Stalin said the decision not only exposed the Centre’s insensitiveness to…