Enter GM food, exit hunger and malnutrition
Ever heard of protein-fortified potatoes, low-calorie mustard oil, pest-resistant cabbage, insect-resistant rice, or worm-busting bell peppers? Over the next couple of years, all these are expected
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Farmers plan to plant larger biotech crops
American farmers will plant more genetically engineered crops this year, including one-third of the corn crop, shrugging off international resistance to biotech food. The farmers are expected to grow
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N.Indian farmers to miss Bt cotton bus
Farmers in North India - Punjab, Haryana and northern Rajasthan - who have pinned all their hopes on the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Ltd's (Mahyco) Bt cotton hybrids to tackle the American
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Green signal
Any new technology always comes in with risks that are inevitable with something that hasn't been tested enough for its safety. This is also the case with the Bt cotton which the government has now
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Decision to release Bt cotton hailed
Members of the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Hubli, have welcomed the decision of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee of India (GEAC) to release three transgenic cotton hybrids,
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Gehlot Government to compensate farmers
The Rajasthan Government will soon take a favourable decision for paying compensation to farmers in the border districts whose land has been taken away for fencing, movement of tanks, deployment of
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Bt Cotton may not suit north Indian climate: experts
The cotton specialist of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Dr. BPS Lather, has warned the cotton growers of Northern India, particularly Hissar, Fatehabad, Sirsa and Bhiwani
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Grazing land laws to be simplified
Revenue Minister for Madhya Pradesh state Vir Singh Raghuvanshi said on Wednesday that laws pertaining to distribution of grazing land to Scheduled Caste and land less farmers would be simplified and
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Brussels' plan for farm payments upsets Poles
The European Commission's proposals to integrate farmers in European union candidate countries into the Common Agricultural Policy are unfair and will do little to boost farm incomes or help rural
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Centre plans contract farming
The Centre is all set to introduce the concept of contract farming for cotton from the current financial year. To begin with, it would be tried out on an experimental basis in two states Andhra
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India opts for GM cotton
The champagne corks must be popping in the headquarters of Monsanto after a major breakthrough when India gave the go-ahead to the use of genetically modified cotton. After the steadfast hostility in
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Contact farming in cotton on cards
The government is planning introduce contract farming in cotton this fiscal. The scheme is likely to be introduced in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh on an experimental basis and will then be extended to
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Philippines nod for GMO draft
The Philippines President, Ms Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, on Tuesday approved draft guidelines that will cover the use and imports of farm products containing genetically modified organisms, a senior
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Genetically engineered pollution
In September 2001, Mexico reported that genetically engineered material has contaminated native corn varieties in the country. Farmers who want to grow local varieties or who own only a few acres of
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Centre agrees to extend Food for Work scheme in AP
The Central government has accepted in principle the demand of Chandra Babu Naidu Government to extend the ongoing Food for Work program in the drought affected areas of Andhra Pradesh till June. The
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Beware of bio-fundamentalists
So the bio-fundamentalists are at it again, digging for worms in the cotton crop this time. Yesterday I woke up to Suman Sahai of Gene Campaign ranting on this page against multinational seed breeder
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Ryots' meet to protest against sale of GM seeds
Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) will organise a massive farmers' convention in Dharwad on April 17 to bring pressure on the union government to ban the sale of genetically-modified (GM) seeds of
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Sop for farmers to adopt crop rotation
Despite political opposition, the Chhattisgarh Government is all determined to promote the concept of crop rotation to improve the economic condition of
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Philippines to regulate import of GMOs
The Philippine government has approved guidelines to regulate imports of genetically modified plants and plant products by July 1 next year, the Department of Agriculture said. The department said
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Raging battle fields
The origins of modern corn can be traced to the remote valleys of Central America, where it was first cultivated 10,000 years ago form the wild teosinte plant. The inevitability of the spread of