Submissions by DGM Project Punjab Mandi Board in the matter of Kapil Dev & Others Vs State of Punjab & Others dated January 14, 2025. All possible efforts were being made by the Punjab Mandi Board to comply with the NGT guidelines and to dispose of the vegetable waste of …
London: Tomatoes can be made more sweeter by tweaking a gene that can also increase its yield by 60%, a new study has found. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York identified the gene that promotes
BHUBANESWAR: A fact-finding team of the BJP today claimed that Nanda Nayak of Golapada village under Bhanjanagar block in Ganjam district committed suicide due to crop loss and loan burden. The team led by BJP Krushak Morcha president Maheswar Sahu visited Golapada yesterday to probe the reason behind Nayak
More testing has to be done on the new variety of brinjal and on any vegetable that may be in the process of being genetically modified.OVER three decades ago I was asked, as were other District Magistrates and Deputy Commissioners in the country, to help the agricultural officers in our …
Experiments were conducted to determine the efficacy of various vermicomposts produced from agro- and distillation-waste of medicinal and aromatic crops on hatching of eggs of Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood and root-knot disease development in tomato.
Misleading the public on safety of genetically modified crops or organisms without scientific evidence would not be made a punishable offence, the government has decided following concerns raised by some scientists and civil society groups. A relevant clause to this effect in the proposed Bill to set up the National …
Even as lot of debates are taking place across the country over BT brinjal, one Vasanth Kumar Hardikar of Haranduru Krishi Kshetra has grown an indigenous species of brinjal having the quality of countering pests and diseases. The creeper-brinjal at Koppaharandur Krishi Kshetra.It is a kind of creeper-brinjal through which …
DHENKANAL: Sanatan Mallick (70) does not use any modern techniques or costly pesticides for cultivating brinjals and green leafy vegetables on his one acre land. Yet, he manages a turnover of Rs 5 to 6 lakh per annum. This progressive farmer claims he had been making profit out of his …
While GM crops continue to hit headlines over safety and impact on biodiversity, genetically fine-tuned tomatoes enter the news with a difference. Natural ripening and softening of fruits and vegetables lead to losses in harvest. For India, the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, the loss is considerable. A …
State Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma today told the Assembly that the State Government was according priority to cold storages and securing market linkage for the farmers so that they got due remuneration for the produce without getting exploited by middlemen. The Minister was replying to a call attention by …
JAJPUR: An increased production of brinjals in Jajpur district has spelt doom to its farmers as the high output had brought down their prices. Besides, there is no cold storage for preservation of brinjal and no industry for its biproducts. Brinjal is much sought after vegetable during marriage season. Farmers …
Chennai: The cold, arid region of Ladakh, where temperatures dip to minus 45 degrees Celsius, is the last place on earth where you would expect tomatoes, potatoes, cucumber, brinjal, onion and garlic to grow. But, thanks to the efforts of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), about 5,000 tons …
While the moratorium on Bt brinjal has dealt a blow to the scientific community, there are several genetically modifided crops being developed by the Ministry of Agriculture, trials for which are on across the country. Interestingly, as they work on these GM crops, scientists bear it in mind that apart …
JAMES KANTER The European Commission began a new push on Wednesday to allow farmers in Europe to grow more biotech crops. In doing so, they have cleared the genetically modified potato for cultivation, despite persistent public opposition to the technolo- gy. In the first such step in more than a …
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 European Union, where genetically modified food crops face stiff opposition on grounds of health and environmental risk, has approved the cultivation of GM potato
In the 14 years since the first genetically modified crops were planted commercially, their descendants, relatives and remixes have gone forth and multiplied like profitable, high-tech pondweed. A new report shows that 25 countries now grow GM crops, with the total area under cultivation now larger than Peru. Three-quarters of …
PM Unhappy With Public Spat Over Bt PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh, who normally opts for the path of least resistance, decided to go along with the view that the introduction of Bt brinjal should wait till safety tests are completed and consensus developed on the crop. Mr Singh, who intervened …
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 …
Gurgaon: Even as the controversy surrounding genetically modified Bt brinjal refuses to die down, it has now come to light that farmers in and around Gurgaon are using alcohol to increase the yield of brinjal crop. Farmers of every village growing the crop spray country-made as well as Indiamade foreign …
