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Closing gap between potential and acheivable productivity: India needs to be open to genetic tinkering and other enhancement technologies

Malavika Dadlani | Indian Express | 
Though India has achieved food security with the production of food grains reaching 330 MT, the demand for coarse cereals, ...
Will India miss out on the emerging agricultural biotechnology revolution?

Will India miss out on the emerging agricultural biotechnology revolution?

Ashok Gulati, Ritka Juneja | Indian Express | 
As soon as the government took the decision to release India’s first genetically-modified (GM) food crop — Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11 ...
Digital children? Will AI create the offspring of the future?

Digital children? Will AI create the offspring of the future?

Indian Express | 
If you prick it, it will not bleed. If you tickle it, it will not laugh. And, perhaps most importantly, ...
Two new herbicide-tolerant — but non-GMO — rice varieties released for sale in India

Two new herbicide-tolerant — but non-GMO — rice varieties released for sale in India

Harish Damodaran | Indian Express | 
The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has developed the country’s first-ever non-GM (genetically modified) herbicide-tolerant rice varieties that can be ...
For the first time, India opens gates to imported GM farm products for use as animal feed

For the first time, India opens gates to imported GM farm products for use as animal feed

Parthasarathi Biswas | Indian Express | 
The first consignment of 50,000 tonnes of genetically modified (GM) soyameal from Bangladesh has arrived in India via the land ...
In civil disobedience challenge to ongoing GMO ban, Indian farmers’ union illegally provides herbicide-resistant cotton seeds to farmers

In civil disobedience challenge to ongoing GMO ban, Indian farmers’ union illegally provides herbicide-resistant cotton seeds to farmers

Parthasarathi Biswas | Indian Express | 
Farmers’ union Shetkari Sanghatana has announced that it will provide farmers seeds of the unapproved herbicide tolerant (Ht) Bt cotton ...
Viewpoint: ‘It is high time Indian farming transforms into precision agriculture by using modern tools of biotechnology'

Viewpoint: ‘It is high time Indian farming transforms into precision agriculture by using modern tools of biotechnology’

Hem Pande | Indian Express | 
The potential of genetic engineering is immense, with gene editing opening up the possibility of cures to hereditary diseases. Similarly, ...
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Indian farmers promise ‘large-scale planting’ of illegal GMO seeds despite government threats

Parthasarathi Biswas | Indian Express | 
Shetkari Sanghatana — the farmers’ union founded by the late leader Sharad Joshi — announced fresh plans in its agitation ...
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‘Make technology available’: Farmers in India set to plant illegal GMO seeds for second year in a row

Farmers in Maharashtra are gearing up to sow non-approved Genetically Modified (GM) seeds of crops like cotton, maize, soyabean, and ...
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After illegal seed planting in 2019, Indian farmers again demand access to GMO herbicide-tolerant cotton

Cotton growers in Maharashtra are once again demanding permission to sow seeds of herbicide tolerant (Ht) genetically modified (GM) cotton ...
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Everything you should know about India’s pro-GMO farmers defying ban on biotech crops

Sukhbir Siwach | Indian Express | 
With a few Haryana farmers symbolically defying a government restriction against sowing banned [GMO] Cotton in Hisar, and the government ...
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Opposition to India’s biotech crop rules grows as pro-GMO protestors distribute illegal cotton to farmers

Sukhbir Siwach | Indian Express | 
Some farmers in Haryana [on July 5] symbolically sowed Herbicide Tolerant (HT) Bt cotton seeds at a farm in Hisar ...
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Heated legal battle in India over Monsanto’s Bt insect-resistant cotton ‘far from over’

Kaunain Sheriff | Indian Express | 
On January 8, a two-judge Bench of the [Indian] Supreme Court set aside an order of a Division Bench of ...
Indian rice farmers increasingly opt for buying high-yielding hybrids instead of saving seeds

Indian rice farmers increasingly opt for buying high-yielding hybrids instead of saving seeds

Harish Damodaran | Indian Express | 
The poorer a state, the less are the chances of its farmers adopting high-yielding seed technology, right? Well, not when ...
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Will India’s government scrap Monsanto’s patent royalties on insect-resistant GMO Bt cotton seeds?

Harish Damodaran | Indian Express | 
Will the pressure to be seen as farmer-friendly, especially with national elections looming, lead the Narendra Modi government to scrap the “trait ...
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Why Indian farmers are buying unapproved herbicide-resistant GMO cotton seeds

Harish Damodaran | Indian Express | 
If market and industry estimates are true, Indian farmers have, in the current kharif season, bought and planted about [350,000] ...
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India should let farmers decide about GMO mustard

Harish Damodaran | Indian Express | 
The GM mustard baiters have ... made a big song and dance about the bar gene, which makes the plant resistant ...
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India’s inconsistency on GMOs: endorse GM mosquitoes, oppose GM mustard

Politicians... in India have been pretty receptive to GM technologies for control of dengue and chikungunya... Such political support for GM ...

India neglecting investment in improved crops, biotechnology

Gurdev Khush | Indian Express | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Budget 2016 contained ...

Will India’s cotton revolution be undone by government control of GMO seed royalties?

Ashok Gulati, Shreya Sarkar | Indian Express | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It was March 26, ...

Did loss of pest resistance in GMO cotton prompt Indian government proposal to revoke patent?

Vivek Deshpande | Indian Express | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. THE Central Institute for ...

Why has India’s government banned commercial surrogacy?

Shalini Nair | Indian Express | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Surrogacy in India is ...

Bt cotton not to blame for Indian whitefly epidemic

Indian Express | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Widespread damage to cotton ...

Mental health leading cause of farmer suicide in India, not indebtedness from buying GMO seeds

Mudit Kapoor | Indian Express | 
For over a decade, farmer suicides in India has been a serious public policy concern. More recently, this has led ...

Indian farmers say GM cotton reduces pesticide use, improves yields

Papiya Bhattacharya | Indian Express | 
The debate over genetically modified crops rears its head every now and then, but for many farmers, it is an ...

Cornell scientist: Exaggerated caution slows adoption of GM crops

Ronald Herring | Indian Express | 
In normal science, risk has a precise but deceptively simple meaning: risk equals the probability of some hazard. Anyone booking ...

India government allows import of frozen embryos

Abantika Ghosh | Indian Express | 
India has allowed the import of human embryos for artificial reproduction, opening up what is expected to be a huge ...

Rejection of GMOs ‘a major failing’ of environmental activism

Mark Lynas | Indian Express | 
“It took me 10 years to really understand that the science wasn’t supporting what we activists were saying [about genetically ...
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