The government of Odisha has approved the Biotechnology Policy 2024 to create a flourishing ecosystem for the biotech industry. This will further promote higher education, research & infrastructure development in the sector and strengthen the supportive ecosystem for innovation, incubation, investment, income & impact to build enterprises. Association of Biotechnology …
This study presents the findings of research into the global socio-economic and environmental impact of biotech crops in the fourteen years since they were first commercially planted on a significant area. It focuses on the farm level economic effects, the production effects, the environmental impact resulting from changes in the …
JAIPUR: Farmer groups in Rajasthan have contested the claim of U.S.-based agricultural bio-technology giant Monsanto that its agreement signed with the State Government last July would make a sustainable improvement in farmers' lives and affirmed that the pact would in fact leave the very productive base of agriculturists
Karnal: Governor Jagannath Pahadia today stressed the need for a second Green Revolution to ensure food security for the poor. Inaugurating a conference on reproductive biotechnology at the NDRI here, he said the livestock sector could play a crucial role to overcome this problem, but improvement in the genetic potential …
India missed the Industrial Revolution under the British rule and is still paying the price for it. When biotechnology revolution can offer technologies to im- prove agriculture and food security in free India, it is dithering and procrasti- nating to the point of self-defeat. (Opinion)
New Drug Developed By Arab Experts Proves 100% Successful In Mice Dubai: A group of Arab researchers is claiming to have developed a medical formula for treating cancer by using camel's milk and urine. Researchers at Arab Biotechnology Company (ABC) have said experiments conducted on mice have proved to be …
It will be very unwise on the part of Kerala to ask public sector institutions to do research on genetically modified (GM) crops, the former chairman of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board V.S. Vijayan has said. He was speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday. A public sector unit …
Dehradun: Uttarakhand Biotechnology department was awarded for commendable performance during the five-day long 98th Indian Science Congress organised in Chennai which concluded on Friday. Providing this information the State Biotechnology department director Dr JMS Rana said that the Indian Science Congress was organised from January 3 at the SRM University …
Ahmedabad: Tourism, civil aviation, specialty healthcare, agro-food processing, information technology and biotechnology sectors would be the priorities of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors
Under the Public Private Partnership(PPP) mode, 17 infrastructure development projects have been completed in Madhya Pradesh. Besides, 21 projects of Rs 5494crore are under construction while 19 projects to the tune of Rs 3070 crore are in the pipeline. There is a target to implement PPP mode projects worth Rs …
A BACTERIUM, which the biotech industry uses as a vehicle to insert foreign genes in plants, can alter the genetic makeup of other life forms like fungi in the environment, shows a research by UK scientists. This is a way, apart from cross pollination, modified genes could escape into the …
It is now final: Health Ministry would lord over the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) only in regard to clinical trials of pharmaceutical drugs but would have no control over genetically modified foods. Sources said the Cabinet has approved Ministry of Science & Technology
The Inter-Academy Report on GM crops submitted in September, 2010, elicited a great deal of public discussion, although it was meant only for limited circulation. In retrospect, this was to be expected in view of the nature of the issue. The report has now been updated. The updating involved the …
This paper explores recent episodes in the field of biotechnology research as regards intellectual property rights. It argues that public research institutes develop schizophrenic intellectual property policies. On the one hand, they are aimed at combating poverty through the development of freely accessible knowledge and biotechnologies, but, on the other …
UNESCO as an agency of United Nations has been active in capacity building in basic sciences, environmental and earth sciences as well as science policy, and has helped to launch many global programmes, among these some relating to biotechnology, biosphere reserves, biodiversity and sustainable development.
This study from the European Commission examines the impacts of GMOs and finds that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, pose no greater health and environmental risks than conventionally bred crops. The report presents the results of 50 projects, involving more than 400 research groups and representing European Union research grants …
Will Obama live up to his promise of change, or will he go down in history as just another petty salesman for bad ideas? No doubt US President Barack Obama was in India on a business trip. His recent electoral losses weighed heavily on him when he stitched up deals, …
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), a premium institute of excellence in agri-food research, will hold a two-day strategic meet on Vision and Partnerships for Innovations in Agri-Food Research at its location in Industrial Area, Phase VIII, here on November 22 and 23. Many scientists and technocrats from Canada and all …
