Joshi, the founder of Shetkari Sanghatana, along with Association of Bt-Led Enterprise, an organization backed by companies making Bt seeds including US-based Monsanto, slammed the farm activists who opposed its use at a press conference here on Tuesday. He accused Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti of serving vested interests, hinting towards the chemical pesticides industry. [COMMENT GENET: the world's main pesticide producers are all members of the Special Interest Group on Agribiotechnology of ABLE!]