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 …
Now days due to economic security, paddy-wheat rotation is prevalent in Punjab. This crop rotation has directly or indirectly caused a lot of ecological, economic and health problems. According to Indian Council of Medical Research, a healthy person should consume 300g vegetables, 40g pulses and negligible quanity of fruits per …
As eight states have said no to Union government's plan to approve Bt Brinjal, this timely booklet by Greenpeace details its impacts on environment & health and opposes the commercial release of this GM Crop. Greenpeace believes that GMOs should not be released into the environment as there is no …
The state government will promote vegetable and banana farming in a big way to help small and marginal farmers to augment their income. This was stated by chairman of the Punjab State Farmers Commission GS Kalkat, who was in the city to attend a function. He said after a research, …
BHUBANESWAR: If things go as planned, Orissa prisons may show the way in organic farming. In fact, the open air jail at Jamujhari, which boasts of 111 acre farm land, already is into organic farming. To give a boost to the initiatives, some top officials of the Agricultural and Processed …
AS INDIA debates over adopting genetically modified (GM) brinjal imported from the West and the issues surrounding this, Vadodara-based Science Ashram, supported by Gujarat Life Science (GLS), has developed a Twenty20 agri-bio inputs for the brinjal crop that not only improves productivity but busts the myth that brinjal cannot be …
A GROUP of environmentalists and lawyers under the banner of Federation for Sustainable Development staged a demonstration here on Monday against the development of Bt brinjal varieties on the TNAU premises. The demonstrators shouted slogans just as Governor Surjit Singh Barnala was about to arrive at the university for its …
EVEN as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) like the Federation for Sustainable Development has vehemently opposed the research on Bt Brinjal, the project director of Chandrayaan, Mylswamy Annadurai, lauded the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) for successfully developing four varieties of Bt Brinjal in its farm here. Delivering the 30th convocation address …
Vibha Dhawan : The landmark decision of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, on October 14 to allow the release of BT Brinjal has been viewed by some as the government
K P Prabhakaran Nair Monsanto's larger strategy is to control the entire seed industry in India in 10-15 years. Bt cotton was the first step. Bt brinjal is the second. Before long, it will be Bt rice, Bt maize, and so forth Heat stability studies carried out on the Bt …
New Delhi: In what is bound to raise the bar for the government to clear GM brinjal, the Supreme Court appointed observer on the GEAC has written to the environment ministry that his and two other members
Nov. 4: Four thousand years after it entered the Indian kitchen, the all-time favourite, brinjal or eggplant, may soon shed its traditional flavour. The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has approved genetically modified or Bt brinjal for human consumption despite protests that adequate tests have not been carried out to …
WHAT, YOU may ask, is common between potatoes, tomatoes, brinjal, chilli, datura, tobacco and the deadly nightshade (belladonna)? They all belong to a plant family called Solanaceae. The Solanaceae family contains a number of important agricultural plants as well as many psychoactive and toxic plants. Solanaceae species are rich in …
Joseph Vackayil : The reported statement of KV Thomas, the minister of state for agriculture, that the agriculture ministry would not blindly oppose any new technology that helped increase food production and ensure food security, has kindled the hopes of Bt brinjal
In India the elongated, deep purple ovoid is considered one of the humblest of vegetables. The Bengalis call it begun which means a vegetable that has no virtue. But now the lowly brinjal has become the eye of the storm that is forcing you to sit up and take notice …
The Union ministry of environment and forest has given the green signal for cultivation of two varieties of genetically modified (GM) brinjal, but scholars here are sceptical. They warned that the impact of GM brinjal on human health is still not clear and it will not be wise to cultivate …
Unlike in Bt cotton, there is no organised lobby of growers to push the case for commercialisation of Bt brinjal, says HARISH DAMODARAN. In March 2002, when Bt cotton was approved for commercial cultivation, there was scant opposition to the Government
PMK URGES CM TO ENACT LAW TO BAN Bt BRINJALPATTALI Makkal Katchi founder president Dr S Ramadoss on Monday urged Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to enact legislation during the forthcoming Assembly session banning Bt brinjal in the State. Interacting with the press while participating in a protest demonstration organised by …
