How Did Monsanto Become Successful

Throughout the last one hundred years, the cotton farmers face numerous difficulties and challenges within the United States. The cotton farmers finally overcome these difficulties with the help of the people within the United States, Therefore, there were many institutions that helped farmers gain success over the hundred years, for example, the government, Monsanto, and other technology scientists and researchers.
To begin with, the government was the first institution that helped the farmers gain success in the United States. The government role was to help the farmers overcome their problems and provided them with protection. First, subsidies were involved and solved the labor problem. Subsidies allowed the cotton farmers to substitute slaves for workers because slaves can work longer than workers. In the book, the …show more content…
Monsanto role was to create new genetically modified seeds and herbicides that can help the cotton farmers solving the weeds and the insects problems. First, Monsanto created herbicides that kill the weeds while sparing the cotton plant, however, the chemical in the herbicides that kill weeds was too strong for the cotton plant. Second, Monsanto developed cotton seeds called Roundup Ready, the cotton seeds that can withstand the chemical in the herbicides, In the book, the author said that the Roundup Ready cotton seeds were strong enough to withstand the herbicides and the cotton farmers no longer need to chop or bury the weeds. Third, Monsanto developed another cotton seeds called the Bt seeds. Bt seeds were created to kill insects. In the book, the author said that Bt seeds contained the gene of the bacteria called Bacterium Thuringiensis and it toxic enough to kill insects such as pests and bollworms. In conclusion, Monsanto was one of the three institutions that helped the farmers gain success in the cotton production in the United