We have heard that this competition (see below) may be considered a mite difficult.
Please don't be put off. Learn a lesson from the biotech industry: don't let ignorance stand in the way of success!
Also you only have to get 2 out of 3 questions right (and 2 are multiple choice!) and failing all else, I am sure Tom could be persuaded to award the prize to the most comic entry!
Presumably falling into the latter category are the respondents to Q3 ('Who was the pioneering agronomist who worked to empower marginal rice farmers in India and recorded around 17,000 traditional cultivars of rice?') who proposed Swaminathan as the answer and referred us to a porno site with the adde www.vshiva.org!
Hit that reply button and let us have those entries - comic or otherwise. Your guesses are as good as anybody's!
Swami-jo-nathan
puffed rice collector
COMPETITION TIME: win a free copy of ' LIAISONS of LIFE
From Hornworts to Hippos, How the Unassuming Microbe Has Driven Evolution'
Here's how to win a free copy of Tom Wakeford's new book.
All you have to do is send NGIN <mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. answers to the following 3 questions:
1. How many GM crops have been designed to be grown without chemical fertilisers or pesticides? (50, 10, 0)
2. What %age of India's poor eat basmati rice? (50, 10, 0)
3. Who was the pioneering agronomist who worked to empower marginal rice farmers in India and recorded around 17,000 traditional cultivars of rice?
Don't forget to include your name and full postal address with your answers.
The winner will be the first name Tom picks out of a hat that has the answer right to at least two of the three questions above.
Closing date midday (UK time) *May 7th*
The prize will be drawn in Oxford at the launch on the 8th.
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