No terminator gene in Bollgard cotton seeds
Field trials of Bollgard cotton varieties by the American-based multi-national company Monsanto inthe State is not related to the much feared "terminator gene" which prevents the use of second
Field trials of Bollgard cotton varieties by the American-based multi-national company Monsanto inthe State is not related to the much feared "terminator gene" which prevents the use of second
Dr. R.S. Paroda, Director-General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education has said that over 1.5 billion people in the world do not
Monsanto: Despite nationwide protests from farmers, Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB), a 50:50 joint venture between global agro-technology giant Monsanto and Mahyco, is set to go ahead with the final
Monsanto Co. said it received regulatory clearance for its long delayed acquisition of DeKalb Genetics Corp, a $2.3billion deal that increases the St. Louis company's crop-bio-technology power. To
Punjab's dream of ushering in a white revolution or what is known as the cotton revolution has turned into a nightmare. And the farmers are blaming the untimely rains and spurious pesticides for
Italy plans to use its memebership of an alliance that is pushing from reform of the European Union milk sector as a platform to campaign for further changes to the Common Agricultural Policy. Paolo
The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Snagha said on Tuesday it would file criminal cases against Monsanto and the Union and the state governments under the Union Seed Act for allowing the company to conduct
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was rising and that the Asian financial crisis could spell even more pain for the poor.
The Centre is likely to consider withdrawing permission to multinational company Monsanto for carrying out field trials on seeds in collaboration with Mumbai based Mahyco company if the seeds were
The Danish International Development Agency has granted Rs 1.3 crores to the Applied Botany Department of Mysore University to carry out research in immunising plants against diseases, instead of
US trade negotiators said they had reached an agreement with Ottawa to further open its market to US farm goods, allowing North Dakota and Montana farmers to ship grain directly to Canada. The
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Japan plan to restrict organic-label certification to raw products with a three-year history of cultivation without agricultural chemicals, and to
The Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security, an organisation of agricultural scientists, economists, policy makers, farmers and environmentalists, has called for an immediate moratorium on all
The furore over the genetically engineered cotton crops being cultivated on a trial basis at 40 sites by the US multinational, Monsanto, has taken a predictable turn with the burning of the crop by
The burning of plants grown on experimental fields in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh by farmers' organisations represents a grave threat to scientific research in agriculture. The experiments are aimed
The controversy revolving around the so-called 'terminator gene' technology is not a reality said Terry J Bunn, director & head of South Asia, Monsanto Enterprises Ltd. Bunn tookover the reins of
The parliamentary standing committee on agriculture has asked the government to expedite the launch of the technology mission on cotton. The committee has expressed 'disappointment' that though the
The Karnataka High Court has directed the state police to provide adequate security to the offices of multinational seed company Monsanto Enterprises Limited and also to Indian Institution of Science
Taking cure from their Karnataka counterparts, farmers in Andhra Pradesh's Warangal district have destroyed an experimental field of the controversial 'Bollgard' cotton crop raised by the US
The attack on Monsanto's genetically engineered cotton crop may cause a serious setback to the research on developing new food crops through bio-technology, an official in the Department of