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India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh has been at the heart of the controversy over BT cotton.
Crop failures have led campaigners to call for the technology to be banned. But some farmers have reported success.
We spoke to farmers and to the academic Dr Shiv Visvanatan who thinks we should look at the bigger picture.