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 …
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi May 28, 2010, 0:36 IST Monsanto licencees have earned over Rs 1,500 crore since 2002. A quiet but determined battle is being fought in the courts, and outside, by US agricultural biotech giant Monsanto, its Indian affiliates and seed lobbyists to free the prices of …
THERE is a need for a large-scale publicly funded biotechnology programme in agriculture to end the monopoly of the private sector, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has said in view of widespread opposition to genetically-modified Bt brinjal.
Sections of Indian government establishment are violating different laws regarding genetically modified food to illegally favour bio-technology multi-national corporations against the interest of citizens,
The Bt brinjal debate has featured technological worries relating to genetically modified crops, which appear relatively minor in comparison to the critical issue of who controls Indian agriculture and therefore who controls food security in India. While there cannot be a mere technological fix to the problems of Indian agriculture, …
Ian Sample Farmland struck by infestations of bugs following widespread adoption of Bt cotton made by biotech giant Monsanto. Scientists are calling for the long-term risks of GM crops to be reassessed after field studies revealed an explosion in pest numbers around farms growing modified strains of cotton. The unexpected …
K V Kurmanath The Andhra Pradesh Government has fixed the trait value for BG II (Bollgard-II) at Rs 90 and for BG-I (Bollgard-I) at Rs 50. With cotton farmers preparing for the kharif sowing, the State Government issued an Order ten days ago fixing the BG-II seed price at Rs …
THE seed giant Monsanto has admitted pests have developed resistance to Bt crops introduced in India. A news story published in Science on March 20, wrote Monsanto “detected unusual survival” of pink bollworms that fed on Bt cotton. Pushpa M Bhargava stated “this should be an eye opener”. Bhargava is …
February 9, 2010 was indeed a sad day for Indian biotechnology. The Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests took a far reaching decision to clamp the moratorium on the commercialization of the first genetically engineered vegetable crop Bt brinjal. It was not based on any compelling scientific evidence …
RASHME SEHGA NEW DELHI During the bt brinjal debate, chief ministers of TN and Orissa had written to the PM expressing reservations on the introduction of GM foods With Tamil Nadu and Orissa state governments having expressed their opposition to the introduction of GM foods, the present Biotechnology Regulatory Authority …
ANDREW POLLACK Critics of biotechnology, who say the crops may be risky to health and the environment, have issued studies say- ing the use of the crops has resulted in increased reliance on pesticides and has had only a minimal effect on crop yields. The report is described as the …
The recent decision of the government of India to impose a moratorium on the release of Bt-Brinjal has been hailed by civil society and scientists alike as a victory for transparency and has demonstrated that the government is responsive to societal demands. This decision is also important since it could …
India made its long-awaited entry into commercial agricultural biotechnology in March 2002 with the approval of three Bt-cotton hybrids for commercial cultivation. In about 6 years, the area under Bt-cotton has increased by more than 210 times to record 6.2 m ha and the number of Bt-farmers by 190 times …
This study presents the findings of research into the global socio-economic and environmental impact of biotech crops in the thirteen 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 …
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has posted to April 22 the hearings on a petition filed by Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMB) against the Andhra Pradesh Government over fixation of Bt cotton trait value. MMB has contended that the Government has no role in fixing the trait value and appealed to the …
Wants farmers to let cattle graze on Bt cotton fields. K.V. Kurmanath A letter from Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (India) Limited to seed manufacturers, advising them to ask farmers to let the cattle graze on Bt cotton fields, has triggered a row in the ongoing debate on Bt cotton. Ahead of the …
Monsanto is back in the courts on the issue of royalty or trait fees it charges for its genetically modified Bt cotton Not all state governments have been kind to the global seed giant Monsanto. And cotton farmers have been less than grateful for the genetically modified (GM) technology that …
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has supported the moratorium on Bt brinjal by the Union minister of state for environment, Jairam Ramesh. Singh qualified his support by saying the period of the moratorium will be decided by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC); the committee would also resolve the conflict among …
