On the 'failure of Bt cotton': Analysing a decade of experience

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 45-53

  Herring, Ronald J ^a   Chandrasekhara Rao, N ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Centre for Economic Social Studies   (India)

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