Emboldened by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar’s current pitch in favour of scientific field trials for transgenic crops, top agriculture scientists of the country on Saturday came together to make it forward more vigorously through their strongest ever remarks: “Ban Monsanto, but don’t ban GM crops” and “don’t ban science (research and trials). Banning science is banning progress”.
Seeking to clear the air over the anti-GM activists’ allegation that the scientific community has been pitching for genetically-engineered crops at the behest of multinational seed companies like Monsanto, the scientists from government institutions like IARI and ICAR and other research bodies argued that demand for scientific trials has nothing to do with benefiting a company, but it’s for larger interest of people of the country.
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