Diverging paths of developing giants: GM seed approvals surge in China while Indian innovation blocked by biotech barriers
China’s moves since October 2023 to approve several genetically modified (GM) strains of maize and soybean have shined a spotlight on ...
India green lights field trials for two genetically modified crops — disease-resistant potatoes and nutrient-boosted bananas
After mustard, India is set to begin trials of two more genetically modified (GM) food crops — bananas and potatoes ...
Viewpoint: ‘I live in India and I am launching a civil disobedience movement against the moratorium on GMO insect resistant eggplant.’ Here’s why
India’s farmers... need technological freedom. In my letter, I asked PM Modi to lift the 2010 moratorium on genetically modified (GM) ...
India has only approved one GM crop — insect resistant Bt cotton. When will a new generation of genetically-enhanced plants arrive?
Eminent agriculture scientists and experts wrote to the Karnataka government [October 26] seeking permission to conduct Biosafety Regulatory Level 1 ...
Sri Lanka pauses organic-inspired ban on synthetic fertilizers
Barely six months after Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to complete organic cultivation and ban on chemical fertiliser imports, several stumbling ...
How dogs evolved into our best friends
Dogs diverged from wolves more than 27,000 years ago, choosing to live alongside and evolve with humans. Published in the ...
Viewpoint: Chinese scientists push unsupported claim that COVID originated in India
[A] recent preprint by Chinese scientists Libing Shen, Funan He and Zhao Zhang titled ‘The early cryptic transmission and evolution of ...
Frustrated by delayed GMO approvals, Indian farmers press forward with illegal insect-resistant eggplant cultivation
The second decade of the 21st century, 2011 to 2020, has turned out to be the lost decade for India, ...
India has access to yield-boosting GMO crops, so why aren’t farmers allowed to grow them?
[India's] Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee .... had first approved GM food crop Bt brinjal in 2009 after a nine-year-long trial ...
Female farmers join protests in India demanding access to GMO herbicide-tolerant cotton
After several instances of farmers in Maharashtra sowing unauthorized varieties of genetically modified (GM) cotton to openly defy the moratorium ...
5,000 farmers to plant illegal GMO cotton, eggplant in protest of India’s biotech crop rules
As many as 5,000 people are expected to come together in Maharashtra’s Akola district [June 10] for what will be ...
Viewpoint: Indian scientist M.S. Swaminathan’s unscientific attack on GMO crops won’t help his country grow more food
[In November], Indian journal Current Science published a thinly-veiled attack against the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture .... [T]he Current Science piece ...
In push for access to GMO seeds, Indian farmers turn to social media
At a time when there is a massive controversy over genetically modified crops, a farmers’ organisation in Maharashtra is making ...
Golden Rice: Debunking Greenpeace’s ‘misinformed and politically motivated’ claims against the vitamin-enhanced GMO crop
The campaign against GR2E was partly misinformed, partly politically motivated. ... One argument is that the benefits of GR2E are ...
