Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
BALASORE: The agriculture sector in India should be modernised to ensure good production or else the country would face food security crisis in the next 15 years, said Hans Wolff, Counsellor for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Wolff was here today to visit …
Environmentalists have stepped up their protest against Bt Brinjal in the country even as a month-long public hearing on the safety of the genetically modified vegetable kicks off from tomorrow. "Bt Brinjal should not be introduced in our farms and our kitchens without a proper reassessment, especially in the context …
RASHME SEHGAL With an agricultural crisis facing them on their face, state governments are not in the mood to antagonise their farmers and are saying no to Bt brinjal. Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, West Bengal, Bihar and even Tamil Nadu have banned the commercial cultivation of genetically modified Bt …
BHUBANESWAR: When Union Minister of Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh would arrive here for a national consultation on Bt Brinjal on Monday next, he may be greeted with protests from social activists and people who have been resisting entry of genetically modified seeds into the country. The MoEF has decided …
BANGALORE: The public consultation on the issue of allowing commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal in Bangalore scheduled for January 23 will be held at the Good Shepherd Auditorium on Residency Road. The consultation at Bangalore is part of the nationwide consultations being held by the Union Ministry of Environment and …
India has made rapid progress in food grain production during second half of the 20th century in which Punjab has played a leading role. However, the growth rate in the state has slowed down over the years and now there is practically a plateauing of the productivity of wheat and …
Global human population has been expanding exponentially, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to ~6 billion in 2000, and is likely to reach 10 billion by 2050, and thus the demand for natural resources is significantly increasing. It has resulted in rapid, extensive and persistent changes in earth ecosystems, more in …
Reema Narendran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration made by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation on agrobiodiversity conservation here on January 5 is conspicuously silent on the issue of genetically- modified (GM) food. The biosecurity of GM plants, with its pollen capable of contaminating native gene pool and thus totally destroying …
Kirtika Suneja & Kalpana Jain / New Delhi January 7, 2010, 0:25 IST Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh will start public consultations from January 13 in seven different cities in India before deciding whether to give the final nod to commercialisation of genetically modified (Bt) brinjal.
M.J. PRABU A MAJORITY of farmers, when their crops fail successively due to some pest attack, invariably go in either for a change in their cropping pattern, or in some cases, even stop farming. But it is only a few determined farmer who try to find the root cause of …
NEW DELHI: Bihar has become the first State to reject the commercial cultivation of genetically modified or Bt brinjal, if only temporarily. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said the issue was carefully considered by the Rajya Kisan Ayog, which, after deliberations with farmers, agricultural scientists and agricultural officers was of …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Environment and Forests will tread carefully while deciding whether or not to allow commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal, first genetically modified food crop in India. Even as Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh begins nationwide consultations on the contentious issue …
Nagercoil: The Consumer Research Education Action Training and Empowerment Trust here urged the Government not to commercialise Bt. Brinjal. In a memorandum sent to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, Chairperson on United Progressive Alliance and Union Minister of Commerce, Anand Sharma, the Managing Trustee, Ponnambalam, said that owing to the …
A field experiment was conducted during 2002-03 and 2003-04 at Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana to study the possible options for diversification of existing rice-wheat cropping system.
