Word: agri
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...Bellerive can at least be refreshingly blunt. For all his dreams about an agri-boom on Haiti's central plateau, he's quick to note that "our goal at the moment isn't to escape poverty. It's to escape misery so we can get back to poverty." Haitians like Marie Chantal would agree: they'd gladly take back their lives of poverty - with at least lace curtains in the windows - than face the misery raining down on them...
...backers also question why Ramesh disregarded scientific evidence from field trials that indicated the brinjals are safe. That evidence had been approved by the government's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee. "This decision is certainly a big setback for biotechnology and I am afraid it will thwart further investment in agri-biotech research," says Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, head of Indian biotech firm Biocon. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...