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Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow

Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow

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A documentary from India about the effects of the highly touted Green Revolution there. Credited with ensuring that India is no longer a developing countries 'basket-case', the Green Revolution is widely regarded as one of the most successful development strategies of the 20th century. But this film reveals that in India it has helped to create a new serf class and the dramatic yields of the early years have fallen away in the wake of pesticide poisoning and the short-lived miracle wheat strains.