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 …
BHUBANESWAR: Following the moratorium on Bt brinjal, the draconian clauses of the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill have invited sharp criticism from scientific community of Orissa and the surprising hurry with which the Centre is planning to pass it. While the earlier National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority (NBRA) …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has put a moratorium on Bt brinjal with the Cry1Ac gene. But following fresh discussions on the wisdom of the ban, scientists are betting their hopes on a different Bt brinjal
The story of genetically modified foods doesn't stop at the government's decision to say no to Bt Brinjal. It has taken an extremely curious turn since to touch on questions of freedom of expression and the right to information. For instance, a new draft bill, the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill …
The International Technical Conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries: Options and Opportunities in Crops, Forestry, Livestock, Fisheries and Agro-industry to Face the Challenges of Food Insecurity and Climate Change, met in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 1 to 4 March 2010. The Conference noted that the use and adoption of biotechnologies …
Imagine the most sophisticated engineering feat you can think of, and you might not consider a living cell. And yet cells are fabulously sophisticated, able to produce all the proteins, tissues, and biological circuits that give rise to life. Scientists have spent hundreds of years just trying to understand cells …
The purpose of this document is to examine options from crop biotechnologies to address food insecurity in developing countries, particularly in the context of deepening economic and environmental uncertainty. Its primary focus is on sector-specific issues relating to biotechnology and their impact on crop breeding, management and genetic resources, but …
Many proponents of organic farming, including well-known activists and NGOs, are vehemently opposed to the introduction of genetic engineering in agriculture and skeptical that biotechnology firms could in any way advance
THANJAVUR: Biotechnology holds the key for ensuring food security of the world in future, said T.Padmanabhan, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, here on Thursday. Inaugurating the international conference on biotechnology, food and bio engineering-emerging trends at Ponnaiah Ramajayam Institute of Science and Technology (PRIST) University, Mr.Padmanabhan said that public …
A TUSSLE is on in the government over where to park the National Biotechnology Authority of India. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that his department or the health ministry were better suited to be the nodal agency for the autonomous authority. The current draft of the bill, which …
Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has cast himself as a lonely crusader for the environmental cause within the government, with no support from any quarter except the Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson. In an interaction with journalists on Wednesday, hours before a meeting called …
An escalation in the Bt brinjal controversy forced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to rein in some of his erring col- leagues and warned them to speak in one voice on the crucial issue of biotechnol- ogy, which was required to increase agricultural pro- ductivity and ensure food security. The meeting, …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has stepped in to make it clear that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will not have the last word on the introduction of Bt Brinjal or any GM (genetically modified) food. This comes after a strong note from Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to the Prime Minister …
The controversy around Bt brinjal has served at least one good purpose. The government has fast-tracked the process of setting up a biotechnology regulator. A regulatory authority is to be set up under an Act of Parliament. A longstanding proposal that has been gathering dust in the Department of Biotechnology …
Finally, we have a decision: genetically modified (GM) foods are not landing on Indian dinner tables just yet. By imposing a moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal developed by Mahyco, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has chosen the path of caution in what has been a bruising battle. …
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) aims to transform the agri-food sector into a globally rewarding and sustainable biotechnology-based enterprise through innovative solutions in primary and secondary agriculture, said its spokesperson Dr Jagdeep Singh on Thursday. The national institute began its operations from a transit campus in Industrial Area, Phase VIII, …
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: After protests over the past few months against commercial introduction of Bt brinjal in the country, activists fighting against genetically modified food in Madhya Pradesh are now calling the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill an effort to stifle anti-GM voices. The Bill, likely …
Permanent campus to come up in 2 years in Knowledge City, transit campus in Mohali Industrial Area India's first National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) is all set to launch operations in Mohali on Thursday. Dr Rakesh Tuli, former director, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, has been appointed as the founder …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: At a time when the Science and Technology (S&T;) and Environment Ministries are differing over Bt brinjal, another tussle is brewing between them over who a new biotechnology regulator will report to. In the wake of the Bt brinjal moratorium, the government is fast-tracking a Bill …
