Monsanto widespread unrest and farmer suicides. Monsanto was one focus of protests with respect to the price and yields of Bt seed. In 2005, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, the Indian regulatory authority, released a study on field tests of certain Bt cotton strains in AP and ruled that Monsanto could not market those strains in AP because of poor yields. At about the same time, the state agriculture minister barred the company from selling Bt cotton seed, because Monsanto refused a request by the state government to provide pay about Rs 4.5 crore (about one million US$) to indebted farmers
José M. Dávila Monsanto of the City of Guayama). On April 4, 2001, Dávila Monsanto died in his home in Guayama. The government of Puerto Rico named the highway that extends from PR-54 (Puerto Rico Highway 54), in Guayama, to PR-52, in Salinas the "Autopista José M. Dávila Monsanto" (the José M. Dávila Monsanto Highway). José M. Dávila Monsanto José M. Dávila Monsanto (November 2, 1905 – April 4, 2001) was a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who in 1938 co-founded the political party "Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico" (Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico or "PPD"). He served in the Puerto Rican