More than 50 farmers, part of the Kisan Swaraj Yatra, today swarmed into Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here and raised slogans against it for conducting trials in various Bt crops.
The protesters, particularly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, demanded that the university stop acting as ‘the agent of multi-national corporation Monsanto and halt trials of Bt cotton, brinjal and corn, which they said would seriously affect domestic seeds and their income.
The activists led by Pankaj Bhushan from Bihar and also some farmers belonging to Tamil Nadu Farmers Association, became restless, when they came to know TNAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Murugesa Bhoopathi was not availabale, with whom they had fixed a prior appointment, police said.
They refused to discuss the issues they wanted to raise with Controller of Examinations Chandrasekhar, standing in for the Vice-Chancellor.