In this paper, assess the impacts of genetically modified eggplant, Bt brinjal, on economic and health outcomes in Bangladesh using a cluster randomized controlled design. Bt brinjal cultivation reduces the cost of pesticide use by 47 percent. This is driven by reductions in the use of pesticides with adverse ecological …
An escalation in the Bt brinjal controversy forced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to rein in some of his erring col- leagues and warned them to speak in one voice on the crucial issue of biotechnol- ogy, which was required to increase agricultural pro- ductivity and ensure food security. The meeting, …
WITH state governments, the Planning Commission and two agricultural universities tasked to conduct research on Bt brinjal cautioning the Centre against immediate commercial release of the GM crop, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to take a middle-of-theroad approach. Mr Singh is meeting ministerial colleagues Sharad Pawar, Jairam Ramesh and …
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 …
S.Elango , Director of Public Health (right), having a word with S.S.Vasan, head of Public Health, Oxitec Limited, U.K., at the Asian Biosafety Training meeting in Madurai on Monday. Madama Bouare , African scientist (centre), is in the picture. MADURAI: Director of Public Health S. Elango on Monday said clarifications …
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 …
The controversy around Bt brinjal has served at least one good purpose. The government has fast-tracked the process of setting up a biotechnology regulator. A regulatory authority is to be set up under an Act of Parliament. A longstanding proposal that has been gathering dust in the Department of Biotechnology …
Finally, we have a decision: genetically modified (GM) foods are not landing on Indian dinner tables just yet. By imposing a moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal developed by Mahyco, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has chosen the path of caution in what has been a bruising battle. …
The morning after announcing the moratorium on Bt brinjal, a visibly relaxed environment minister spoke to Outlook Outlook Interviews Jairam Ramesh The morning after announcing the moratorium on Bt brinjal, a visibly relaxed environment minister Jairam Ramesh spoke to Outlook. Excerpts: A rethink on GM in agriculture: The moratorium has …
Ravish Tiwari His colleagues in the Government, Ministers Sharad Pawar, Prithviraj Chavan and Kapil Sibal disagreed with him and called for science, not ideology, to dictate Government policy on genetically modified (GM) foods. Now the Prime Minister
National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) aims to transform the agri-food sector into a globally rewarding and sustainable biotechnology-based enterprise through innovative solutions in primary and secondary agriculture, said its spokesperson Dr Jagdeep Singh on Thursday. The national institute began its operations from a transit campus in Industrial Area, Phase VIII, …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday urged agricultural scientists to double their efforts to remove all misgivings on genetically modified (GM) crops from the minds of policy makers and the public. Inaugurating a two-day conference of Vice Chancellors of agricultural universities and meeting of Directors …
Days after Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh overruled experts to put on hold the release of Bt brinjal and said biotech research could not be left to the private sector, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that genetically modified crops could solve the country
We need the courage to confront the evidence and the caution to avoid a catastrophe Nitin Desai / New Delhi February 18, 2010, 0:32 IST What do the sub-prime crisis, the controversies over climate change and the acrimonious disputes over Bt brinjal have in common? All three are a product …
Kalpana Jain / New Delhi February 18, 2010, 0:15 IST Seed stocks to be registered, testing labs to be set up. Companies with any seeds of Bt brinjal, the genetically modified version of the vegetable, will have to register the details with the government, to ensure none of it is …
EVEN as agriculture minister Sharad Pawar accepted that the last word on Bt Brinjal was that of environment minister Jairam Ramesh, he made a strong case for genetically modified crops. Arguing in favour of the GM crops, Mr Pawar said that it could solve the country
