The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft prepared about nine years ago by the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Among other things, …
BHUBANESWAR: Fearing that the proposed Seeds Bill, 2004, if enacted, would harm millions of small and medium farmers across the country and only benefit the multi-national companies, city-based United Coalition Against Genetic Engineering (Uncage) today said that all stakeholders in agriculture and environment sectors must come forward to oppose the …
Expressing concern over lack of transfer of technology from laboratories to field, Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir today said he had directed the Agriculture Extension Department to cultivate maize in the irrigated and tourism significant areas like Pahalgam, Sonmarg, Tangmarg and Shopian.
The Kerala Government is considering a law to ban genetically modified crops (GM) in order to ensure seed quality and protect traditionally cultivated crops in the State. A Bill in this regard is likely to be presented in the Assembly in its next session. The Government is said to have …
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 …
More testing has to be done on the new variety of brinjal and on any vegetable that may be in the process of being genetically modified.OVER three decades ago I was asked, as were other District Magistrates and Deputy Commissioners in the country, to help the agricultural officers in our …
An acute shortage of healthy seeding materials for horticulture requires redrafting of the Seeds Bill, 2004 Surinder Sud / New Delhi March 23, 2010, 0:45 IST Unlike foodgrain crops that have been getting every kind of support from the government for their growth ever since the green revolution started in …
Monsanto, facing antitrust probes into its GM seeds, may benefit from previous court rulings in which intellectual property rights trumped competition concerns. The US Department of Justice and 7 state attorneys general are investigating whether the world
TIRUCHI: The Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute (AEC and RI), Kumulur of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University organised a five-day national training programme on pre and post harvest management techniques for seed quality assurance recently. K. Ramamoorthy, special officer (seeds), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, inaugurated programme and released the …
NEW DELHI: The Bt brinjal seed stock developed in the country should be deposited with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources to prevent any potential leakage or contamination during the moratorium on its commercial release. The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee made this decision during its meeting on February 9, …
A week after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh intervened to reconcile differences among ministers of Environment and Forest, Science and Technology, Agriculture, and HRD over the introduction of genetically modified food crops in the country, the government is likely to witness a discussion on the same again as the Cabinet is …
In days of yore, the Mararikulam brinjal was much favoured by the royal families of Travancore and Amabalapuzha in Kerala. Slender, long and green, this variety has been grown in Mararikulam on the Kerala coast for centuries. The village would supply its choicest brinjals to royalty. So, even as the …
Many proponents of organic farming, including well-known activists and NGOs, are vehemently opposed to the introduction of genetic engineering in agriculture and skeptical that biotechnology firms could in any way advance
