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Video: Kenya to begin planting yield-boosting GMO cotton by spring 2020
Cotton farmers in Kenya are set to start planting genetically modified cotton by May 2020, a year later than expected, ...
India’s Supreme Court set to rule whether Monsanto maintains its patent rights on GMO Bt Corn
All eyes in India are currently on the country’s Supreme Court where the agro-biotech giant Monsanto is battling to reclaim ...
CRISPR gene editing could fuel fight against evolving cotton pests
[B]ugs are biting back by adapting to crops genetically engineered to kill them. A new study published in the Proceedings of ...
India to investigate Monsanto for allegedly inflating prices of GMO insecticide Bt cotton seeds
The Delhi High Court [October 12] dismissed biotechnology firm Mahyco Monsanto Biotech’s plea challenging the fair trade regulator’s order to ...
Will ‘regulatory red tape’ cost India its status as world’s top cotton producer?
Delivering his fifth Independence Day speech on August 15, 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he wanted to add ...
India’s harvest of hypocrisy: Farmers blamed for GM crop failures
The following is an excerpt. Of all the GMO controversies around the world, the saga of Bt cotton in India ...
Is there a limit to gains from genetically engineered cotton?
Since genetically modified cotton was introduced in India a decade ago, its popularity has skyrocketed. Last year more than seven ...
Is adoption of Bt cotton an indicator of its success?
Very often, it is argued by biotech proponents and others that the very adoption of Bt cotton in India is ...
