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 …
THRISSUR: Cabbage and cauliflower are vegetables traditionally grown in the winter season on the Northern plains and in the high altitude areas in the South. But, with the advent of tropical varieties which can form marketable 'heads and curds' even at temperatures as high as 35o C, cultivation of these …
RASHME SEHGAL The ordinary brinjal has won the day. Mounting pressure forced Union forests and environment minister Jairam Ramesh to revoke the decision of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee on Tuesday and defer commercial cultivation of what could have been India's first genetically modified vegetable crop. "There is no over-riding …
THE APPROVAL of Bt Brinjal by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has exposed the unscientific basis on which genetically-engineered crops are being commercialised, and it raises questions about the entire bio-safety process. The admission by the chair of the Expert Committee-II (EC-II), Dr Arjula Reddy, that Union agriculture minister …
Jairam Ramesh Stressing that India needed to look at its seed industry, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said he believed in the fundamental primacy of the public sector seed industry.
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai February 10, 2010, 0:45 IST Sharad Pawar Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Sharad Pawar today said a new seed can be introduced only after the Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared it. He was reacting to the Centre
Scientists and activists have welcomed the decision of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to defer commercialisation of Bt brinjal. Even Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco), which created the genetically modified vegetable, said it respects the verdict.
Ranchi, Feb. 9: In an unusual show of rage, farmers are destroying tomatoes to protest low prices and highlight the lack of cold storage and food processing facilities in Pithoria, Bhuiyandih and Patamda, the vegetable baskets of Ranchi and East Singhbhum.
HYDERABAD: Agriculture Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy, AP Ryotu Sangham, AP Rythu Sangham and the State unit of Swadeshi Jagran Manch on Tuesday hailed as
IN the wake of the mounting protests against the proposed introduction of Bt brinjal, the Tamil Nadu Agr i c u l t u r a l U n ive r s i t y (TNAU) Vice-Chancellor P Murugesa Boopathi said the institute would not go ahead with its plan …
Ministry of Environment and Forests decision on commercialisation of Bt-Brinjal. See also: http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/Annex_BT.pdf
CHENNAI: A Siddha medical practitioner here has filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court praying that the approval granted by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) on October 14 last year for environmental release of Bt brinjal in the country be declared null and void. In his petition, …
With RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) spearheading a campaign against introduction of Bt brinjal and Sangh boss Mohan Bhagwat too speaking out against it, BJP-ruled Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh went the Uttarakhand way today, announcing a ban on commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal. Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said …
Limited information and imperfect regulation mislead consumers PRABHA JAGANNATHAN MODERN plant breeding evoke strong concern on food and feed crops. Critics also charge that through a combination of technical and economic pressures, commercial breeders of transgenic crops are reducing biodiversity and significantly constraining farmers from developing and trading seed at …
In the context of the stiff opposition to the introduction of Bt brinjal in the market by activists in particular, although some scientists too have expressed their opposition to the move, one is reminded of the atmosphere prevailing at the time of the introduction of the high-yielding semi-dwarf varieties of …
The humble vaingan has sparked a virtual war between those who oppose the introduction of the first genetically modified (GM) vegetable, and those who see it as a new horizon of hope for increasing brinjal output by over 50 per cent. The Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) Brinjal, a genetically modified version …
