Report rubbished
the recent study conducted by China's Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences and global environmental group Greenpeace, which claimed that Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton causes damage to the environment, has no takers in the country. While Chinese biotechnology researchers have unanimously rejected most of the views expressed in the report, some have even contradicted the findings. They state that the insect-resistant form of cotton actually benefits the environment.
Coming three months after India allowed the commercial plantation of Bt cotton, the report had raised apprehensions afresh on the role of genetically modified organisms (gmos). The strong Chinese refutation appears to have, however, considerably allayed incipient doubts that had arisen in India.
According to the study, the transgenic variety of cotton would lose resistance to bollworm
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