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PBS documentary profiles Norman Borlaug and his ‘Green Revolution’: It fed billions but critics claim unintended consequences
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World tells the story of Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist who won the ...
Nutrient-fortified, drought-tolerant chickpea could provide sustainable protein source for India
Chickpea is a major source of protein for the people in India. It is grown mainly in semi-arid regions during ...
India cancels royalties seed companies pay Bayer for GMO cotton, threatening foreign investment in nation’s biotech crop sector
India has axed the royalties that local seed companies pay to German drugmaker Bayer AG for Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) ...
India should ‘definitely adopt’ new GMO crops, nation’s top biotech cotton expert argues
The logjam in approval of newer genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds [in India] has catalyzed planting of unauthorized seeds known ...
India moves to restrict cultivation of illegal but easily acquired GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton
Amid reports of cultivation of [an] unapproved variety of transgenic HTBt [herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant] cotton seeds, the Union environment ministry has ...
Activists escalate efforts to stop Indian farmers from using GMO seeds
Anti-GMO activists in India have escalated their war on the country’s resource-poor farmers by moving their efforts to stop genetically ...
Petition urges India’s Supreme Court to halt illegal GMO crop cultivation, citing ‘irreversible’ genetic contamination
The Supreme Court on [Jan 6] issued a notice in the matter of illegal planting of non-approved Genetically Modified (GM) ...
GMO cotton boosted farmer incomes $52 billion over 20 years, study finds
The area planted to biotech cotton in 2018 reached 24.9 million hectares, a 3% increase from 24.1 million hectares in ...
Indian farmers highlight higher yields from banned GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton to defy nation’s biotech crop rules
As farmers [headed] to Yavatmal in Maharashtra to showcase post-harvest success stories of banned [herbicide-tolerant] cotton on [Jan. 5], their ...
India develops disease-resistant, drought-tolerant chickpeas in record time
Indian farmers may soon take hold of two new chickpea varieties with improved drought tolerance and disease resistance traits. The ...
3D ‘bioprinting’ could help produce customized, sustainable and more nutrias lab-grown meats
Researchers at IIT-Guwahati [Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati] have developed lab-grown meat, which is nutritious and will be a step ...
Expanding India’s crop diversity could boost access to vital nutrients for 200 million people, study shows
There has been a substantial increase in food production over the last 50 years, but it has been accompanied by ...
Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace
Golden Rice is back in the news as the Philippines and Bangladesh move closer towards approval of the GMO food ...
Viewpoint: Experts urge India to embrace technology in pursuit of food security
In India, farming is being held back by the efforts of activists like philosopher Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., who charge $40,000 ...
Viewpoint: Growing GMO crops provides 4 major health benefits you probably didn’t know about
While the application of agricultural chemicals is highly mechanized in industrial countries, the same cannot be said for developing countries, ...
Thanks to IVF, 73-year-old Indian woman just became the ‘oldest new mother ever documented’
An Indian woman named Erramatti Mangayamma has seemingly made history by becoming the oldest new mother ever documented. Her doctors ...
Unraveling the genetic mystery of Skeleton Lake, an ancient Indian site filled with hundreds of human bones
At the mysterious Skeleton Lake in northern India, the dead are talking, revealing surprises through centuries-old DNA. And it’s not ...
India won’t ban glyphosate to stop illegal planting of herbicide-tolerant GMO crops
The government is unlikely to put a ban on the controversial herbicide glyphosate as there is no proven record to ...
526 ‘abnormal’ teeth found in 7-year-old boy’s mouth in India extracted by surgeons
A 7-year-old boy complaining of jaw pain was found to have 526 teeth inside his mouth, according to the hospital ...
India’s anti-GMO activists claim biotech eggplant contains ‘poison’ in bid to end illegal crop cultivation
There is no scientific evidence to prove that genetically modified crops are unsafe, the Union Environment Ministry told [parliament on ...
India’s pro-GMO cotton farmers make case for relaxed biotech crop rules to prime minister
Farmers who want to grow GM crops have met senior ministers of the [federal] government to represent their case. A ...
Farmer coalition in India urges government to stop illegal GMO crop cultivation
A clutch of farmer groups from a wide spectrum of political views .... are planning to petition the official regulator ...
Everything you should know about India’s pro-GMO farmers defying ban on biotech crops
With a few Haryana farmers symbolically defying a government restriction against sowing banned [GMO] Cotton in Hisar, and the government ...
India’s crackdown on GMO cotton in Maharashtra state boosts illegal planting nearly 25%
Nearly 25 per cent of the cotton crop being sown by farmers in Maharashtra this season is from the banned ...
Opposition to India’s biotech crop rules grows as pro-GMO protestors distribute illegal cotton to farmers
Some farmers in Haryana [on July 5] symbolically sowed Herbicide Tolerant (HT) Bt cotton seeds at a farm in Hisar ...
India says it will take “appropriate action” to stop farmers from planting unapproved GMO insect resistant and herbicide tolerant crops
[India's] agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar reiterated that all genetically modified (GM) crops other than Bt. cotton [have] been banned ...
Viewpoint: ‘Doctrinal’ objections to GMO crops shouldn’t trump science amid farmer protests in India
Agriculture is one sector that has been not just been completely bypassed by economic reforms but also by innovations in ...