Amid intense public debate over the impact of Genetically Modified (GM) crops on health and the environment, thousands of farmers from across the country will assemble in New Delhi on Thursday to make an appeal to policy makers for infusion of biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity in the country which needs uninterrupted supply of food-grains in adequate quantity to feed its growing population.

The farmers will make this pitch merely days after thousands of anti-GM crops activists strongly appealed to the government not to allow even field trials of genetically engineered crops in India.

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