The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
M.S. Swaminathan, the father of green revolution in India and a Rajya Sabha member, is in Copenhagen, along with four other members of Parliament, to keep track of India's negotiations on climate change. The 84year old agriculture scientist and recipient of several awards says that expectations had been raised in …
Policy action is required to ensure adequate public investment in agricultural research to benefit poor farmers and consumers in developing countries. Trade policies should not discriminate against developing countries that choose to commercialise genetically modified (GM) crops. These were the two main streams of thought distilled from the presentations made …
The widespread adoption of Bt cotton in India illustrates why and how evasion of both bio-property and bio-safety regimes is pervasive globally, said Prof Ronald J. Herring, Cornell University. A Professor of Government and Director of the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Prof Herring made this observation …
As agriculture universities transform local varieties into genetically modified Bt brinjal, questions of ownership arise Indians call it the brinjal. Other countries know it as the eggplant or aubergine. It is widely used the world over and every cuisine from the Chinese to the African has an encyclopaedia of recipes …
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 issues relating to Genetically Modified Crops have generated intense public debate, engaging the attention of the Government, the farming community and the civil society. Though it has been widely claimed that genetically engineered foods will go a long way in tackling food security issues of the 21 st century, …
Brinjal commonly known as eggplant, aubergine or guinea squash, is an important vegetable crop of tropical and temperate parts of the world. It is a good source of vitamins and minerals, especially iron. Besides being used as an important vegetable, eggplant has been exploited extensively in traditional medicine.
With environmental clearance from the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests in place, Bt-Brinjal has taken an important step towards its widespread cultivation. As is expected, a variety of views, supportive as well as those advocating caution have been expressed regarding the introduction of …
The Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company Limited, popularly known as Mahyco, has a remarkable history in many ways. It was set up in 1964 by a man with farming but no business experience, and at a time when public sector research institutions and government seed companies dominated Indian agriculture.
Mumbai At a screening of a documentary on BT Brinjal, the genetically modified vegetable soon to be launched in India, an organic farmer from Rawala Village, Warud tehsil of Amravati district, revealed how BT cotton has left tracts of farmland in the agricultural village of Amravati infertile. Poison on Platter, …
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 …
The prices of Gujarat Sankar-6 (GS-6) medium staple Bt cotton, the largest exported variety from India, shot up over Rs 1,000 per candy (1 candy = 356 kg) since Saturday in the spot markets in Gujarat. The increase was mainly propelled by Chinese demand and mill buying, industry officials and …
Needed, a credible biotech regulatory regime FOR INDUSTRY & PEOPLE IN THE FACE-OFF BETWEEN PRO- AND ANTI-GM FOOD LOBBIES, THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND. BLAME THE LACK OF A CREDIBLE REGULATORY REGIME. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A STATE OF-THE-ART LAB TO TEST BIOSAFETY AND OTHER PARAMETERS AND RELIES ON …
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
by Rachel Shields GM crops have a role to play in preventing mass starvation across the world caused by a combination of climate change and rapid population growth, a scientist has said. Professor Robert Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), called …
