Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Long-term ecological effects of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops on non-target pests have received limited attention, more so in diverse smallholder-based cropping systems of the developing world. Field trials conducted over 10 years in northern China show that mirid bugs (Heteroptera: Miridae) have progressively increased population levels and acquired pest …
CARTELISATION among state governments to cap the price of Bt cotton seed has brought the domestic and multinational seed companies on a common platform to push for removal of all strictures on prices. The seeds industry has argued that price controls will snuff out all competition and, consequently, new and …
Tells AP Govt that it will implement contracts on Bt cottonseed. K. V. Kurmanath Hyderabad, May 6 The war of words over the fixation of seed price and trait value for Bt cottonseeds has taken an interesting twist with Mahyco-Monsanto Biotechnology Limited (MMBL) asserting that it is not going to …
Dr R. Hampaiah, heading the Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Board, a statutory body set up by the Central government under the Biological Diversity Act 2002, is demanding Monsanto India pay royalty for using a bacteria strain that can be traced to the Mahanandi village in Kurnool district. Dr Hampaiah claims this …
K V Kurmanath The Andhra Pradesh Government has fixed the trait value for BG II (Bollgard-II) at Rs 90 and for BG-I (Bollgard-I) at Rs 50. With cotton farmers preparing for the kharif sowing, the State Government issued an Order ten days ago fixing the BG-II seed price at Rs …
The Gujarat Government, which is about to revise the price of Bt cotton seed price ahead of the kharif season, has decided to study the model adopted by the Andhra Pradesh Government on the contentious issue. Mr Dileep Sanghani, Gujarat Minister for Agriculture, has written a letter to his Andhra …
THE seed giant Monsanto has admitted pests have developed resistance to Bt crops introduced in India. A news story published in Science on March 20, wrote Monsanto “detected unusual survival” of pink bollworms that fed on Bt cotton. Pushpa M Bhargava stated “this should be an eye opener”. Bhargava is …
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to look into the issues relating to pricing of Bt cotton seeds. Mr Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy passed the order while dealing with a petition filed by Mr Kolli Nageswara Rao, a leader of the AP Rythu Sangam, on …
The promoter of genetically modified crops, Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech, has reported pest resistance to the Bt gene used in its hybrid cotton plant—Bollgard. Scientists at the government’s Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) in Nagpur dismissed the company’s claim as a gimmick to promote its more expensive Bollgard II. The per-packet …
Tirupur: The powerloom cloth manufacturers affiliated to the Coimbatore-Tirupur districts Powerloom Cloth Manufacturers Federation, observed a fast here on Wednesday in protest against the frequent rise in the prices of cotton yarn. The federation secretary, M. Doraisamy, said that the abnormal rise in yarn prices in short notices during the …
India made its long-awaited entry into commercial agricultural biotechnology in March 2002 with the approval of three Bt-cotton hybrids for commercial cultivation. In about 6 years, the area under Bt-cotton has increased by more than 210 times to record 6.2 m ha and the number of Bt-farmers by 190 times …
People may never look at brinjal in the same way again. In the last few months, this innocuous vegetable has garnered much public attention and so did the research and development happening in the field of agriculture. R&D; in agriculture which usually misses to impress the media or the people …
This study presents the findings of research into the global socio-economic and environmental impact of biotech crops in the thirteen years since they were first commercially planted on a significant area. It focuses on the farm level economic effects, the production effects, the environmental impact resulting from changes in the …
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has posted to April 22 the hearings on a petition filed by Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMB) against the Andhra Pradesh Government over fixation of Bt cotton trait value. MMB has contended that the Government has no role in fixing the trait value and appealed to the …
Wants farmers to let cattle graze on Bt cotton fields. K.V. Kurmanath A letter from Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (India) Limited to seed manufacturers, advising them to ask farmers to let the cattle graze on Bt cotton fields, has triggered a row in the ongoing debate on Bt cotton. Ahead of the …
Monsanto is back in the courts on the issue of royalty or trait fees it charges for its genetically modified Bt cotton Not all state governments have been kind to the global seed giant Monsanto. And cotton farmers have been less than grateful for the genetically modified (GM) technology that …
Is Mahyco-Monsanto trying to push its products too fast in the market? Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMB), a joint venture between Monsanto and Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds (Mahyco), issued a release on 5 March stating that its first generation Bt cotton known as Bollgard, was no longer resistant to an evolving pest (the …
Monsanto has revealed that a common insect pest has developed resistance to its flagship genetically modified (GM) product in India. The agricultural biotechnology leader says it "detected unusual survival" of pink bollworms that fed on cotton containing the Cry1Ac gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, which codes for a protein …
