agriculture and rural farms of india

India poised for U-turn: Country trades organic-only farm solutions for CRISPR gene editing

KP Sai Kiran | Times of India | 
The Pinarayi Vijayan government seems to have taken a U-turn on its policy on genetic modification of crop seeds, with ...
Will cloning disease-resistant indigenous cows rescue the milk-producing market in India?

Will cloning disease-resistant indigenous cows rescue the milk-producing market in India?

Siddharth Tiwari | Times of India | 
All births are special, but Ganga's was a milestone. This Gir calf born on March 16 this year is the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fake activism’ — How Indian activists promote misleading claims to sway public opinion against crop biotechnology and other science innovations

Viewpoint: ‘Fake activism’ — How Indian activists promote misleading claims to sway public opinion against crop biotechnology and other science innovations

Tehseen Ponawalla | Times of India | 
Fake activism is a dangerous tool that is used to manipulate public opinion and to further the interests of those ...
India’s potential approval of GM mustard may open door to insect-resistant cotton, anti-fungal potato and vitamin-boosted banana

India’s potential approval of GM mustard may open door to insect-resistant cotton, anti-fungal potato and vitamin-boosted banana

U Sudhakar Reddy | Times of India | 
While controversy has dogged the environmental release of genetically engineered (GE) mustard, other GE crops are being prepped at institutes ...
Viewpoint: ‘Activists and organizations spread lies about GMOs’ — Nobel laureate chides dogmatic political discourse, highlights decades of GMO’s safe use

Viewpoint: ‘Activists and organizations spread lies about GMOs’ — Nobel laureate chides dogmatic political discourse, highlights decades of GMO’s safe use

Ardhra Nair | Times of India | 
Misinformation about science, especially genetically modified crops, need to be dispelled and they should be adopted as it is backed ...
How fetal facial scans can help identify serious diseases early

How fetal facial scans can help identify serious diseases early

U Sudhakar Reddy | Times of India | 
Nizam’s Institute of Medical Science and Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics research on inherited genetic disorders revealed that morphological ...
Can genetic screening improve your chances of finding a successful career?

Can genetic screening improve your chances of finding a successful career?

Nitin Thakur | Times of India | 
We might not realise or give it any thought but the type of work we prefer, whether we pursue a ...
Viewpoint: India's 'retreat' from GM crops in the face of dogmatic opposition will harm its farmers

Viewpoint: India’s ‘retreat’ from GM crops in the face of dogmatic opposition will harm its farmers

Times of India | 
In deciding to consider proposals for GM crop field trials only upon the recommendation of state governments, [the Indian government] ...
Bowing to political pressure, India scraps plans to trial GM, insect-resistant, Bt eggplant

Bowing to political pressure, India scraps plans to trial GM, insect-resistant, Bt eggplant

Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
[The Indian government] has junked its decision of allowing scientific field trials of transgenic crops including indigenously developed Bt brinjal.  ...
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Anti-GMO activists move to block Bt insect-resistant eggplant field trials in India

Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
Ten years after imposing a moratorium on commercial release of genetically modified Bt Brinjal, the [federal government] has now allowed ...
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Expert answers to 11 questions about Beyond Burgers, Impossible Whoppers and other plant-based meats

Bruce Friedrich, Smita Mishra | Times of India | 
Bruce Friedrich is cofounder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), an international non-profit organization that .... is ...
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India should ‘definitely adopt’ new GMO crops, nation’s top biotech cotton expert argues

Vijay Waghmare, Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
The logjam in approval of newer genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds [in India] has catalyzed planting of unauthorized seeds known ...
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India moves to restrict cultivation of illegal but easily acquired GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton

Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
Amid reports of cultivation of [an] unapproved variety of transgenic HTBt [herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant] cotton seeds, the Union environment ministry has ...
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Indian farmers highlight higher yields from banned GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton to defy nation’s biotech crop rules

Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
As farmers [headed] to Yavatmal in Maharashtra to showcase post-harvest success stories of banned [herbicide-tolerant] cotton on [Jan. 5], their ...
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Pro-GMO group in India offers legal services to farmers arrested for planting illegal biotech cotton

Shishir Arya | Times of India | 
Soon after the police in Buldhana arrested farmer Vasanta Muley .... for possessing [illegal] cotton seeds .... Shektari Sanghatana — ...
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Despite threat of arrest, pro-GMO protests in India spread across 11 districts in state of Maharashtra

Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
A ‘pro-GM seed’ movement, which had begun in one district of Maharashtra with farmers defying [a] ban on planting unapproved ...
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Viewpoint: India should stop bowing to ‘mindless opposition’ and approve GMO Bt eggplant

Sanjeev Sabhlok | Times of India | 
A couple of decades ago, some of our brightest gene scientists in India took the genes of a commonly found ...
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Low cholesterol oil? Indian scientists developing CRISPR gene-edited groundnut

Nimesh Khakhariya | Times of India | 
Soon, weight watchers and those with high cholesterol won’t have to think twice before picking up the jar of groundnut ...
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Indian state Maharashtra waiting on federal government to ban sale of glyphosate herbicide

Shishir Arya | Times of India | 
After questions were raised in a meeting chaired by union agriculture secretary over the rationale in issuing licences for sale ...
India's food regulator proposes mandatory GMO labeling

India’s food regulator proposes mandatory GMO labeling

Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
Seeking to introduce GMO labelling for the first time in India, the country’s food regulator has proposed all packaged food products containing genetically modified ...
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Indian farmers growing unapproved herbicide-resistant GMO soybeans, farmers union says

Snehlata Shrivastav | Times of India | 
For the first time, illegal cultivation of a genetically modified (GM) food crop — GM Soyabean — which is herbicide ...
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Indian scientists say anti-GMO activist groups undermine use of modern farming techniques

Vishwa Mohani | Times of India | 
Days after a Parliamentary panel raised certain doubts over the Center's impending move to give its green signal to commercial ...
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Indian scientist: Promoting ‘rich man’s’ organic food’ and delaying insect-resistant GMO eggplant hurts poor

Sarfaraz Ahmed | Times of India | 
Chairman of Review Committee for Genetic Manipulations (RCGM) Dr B Sesikeran ... said by stalling Bt brinjal [eggplant], India has only done more ...
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Is pink bollworm pest developing resistance to GMO Bt corn in India?

Bhavika Jain | Times of India | 
Genetically modified or Bt cotton is no longer resistant to pink bollworm - a major pest in Mahahrashtra, prompting the state government to write ...
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Infographic: India poised to dramatically increase its global GMO footprint

Times of India | 
GM crop footprint in India is all set to grow once the government gives its final nod to GM Mustard, ...
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India’s biotech regulator greenlights GMO mustard—But hurdles to commercialization remain

Vishwa Mohan | Times of India | 
India's central biotech regulator, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), on Thursday [May 11] cleared the genetically modified (GM) Mustard for ...
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Indian farmers can benefit tremendously from planting GM crops, new book says

Adarsh Jain | Times of India | 
Former director of [the] Centre for Plant Molecular Biology at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University [in India,] S Sadasivam on [Feb ...

Modifying gene-delivering viruses decreases risk of cancer in gene therapy

Times of India | 
Scientists have developed a new safer gene therapy that may reduce the risk of cancer and can be used for ...
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