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Sandeep writes "This article tells of an initiative in rural India, to provide internet access for farmers. The initiative is called e-choupal, a name taken from the Hindi name for village square. An incongruous image when you consider they still use bullock carts for carrying the produce..."
Don't be stupid.
Clean Water, yeah that is useful. You are batting one out of three.
The other two, what is wrong with you? Do you want these people to starve?
GM crops can be very useful things, assuming that a small group of overzealous and clueless people don't have there way with it. They have the promise of of providing better, healthier crops. Hell, with GM crops it is even possible to do something about pesticides.
Speaking of them... you know how much harder and how much the yeild decreases when you go the 'natural' route? These people are in very poor countries, they are having enough problems without having some socialist know-it-all telling them how to farm.
I do agree with one thing, this entire internet for poor Indian farmers does seem like a waiste of money. The money might be better spent buying the farmers supplies so they can access clean water, GM crops so they can have a better, healthier yeild, and modern insecticides with the training on how to use them effectively.