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Maharashtra state in India contemplates lifting GMO herbicide-tolerant cotton ban amid farmer protests
Demands to lift [the] ban on the use of herbicide-tolerant Bt (HTBT) cotton in the state are growing stronger. Several ...
Pro-GMO group in India offers legal services to farmers arrested for planting illegal biotech cotton
Soon after the police in Buldhana arrested farmer Vasanta Muley .... for possessing [illegal] cotton seeds .... Shektari Sanghatana — ...
Despite threat of arrest, pro-GMO protests in India spread across 11 districts in state of Maharashtra
A ‘pro-GM seed’ movement, which had begun in one district of Maharashtra with farmers defying [a] ban on planting unapproved ...
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 ...
Podcast: More fearful of crop losses than jail, Indian farmers grow illegal GMO Bt eggplant
While Indian farmers have benefited tremendously from growing insect-resistant GMO cotton, the government has outlawed the cultivation of genetically engineered ...
Viewpoint: To support farmers, India should promote consumer acceptance of GMO crops
With Prakash Javadekar taking charge of the environment ministry from the inert Harsh Vardhan, and hopes kindling of genetically-engineered brinjal ...
Video: ‘Technology freedom—we want, we want’: Farmers protest India’s GMO crop restrictions
5,000 farmers in India staged a protest to demand access to GMO crops, with some risking up to five years ...
10% of India’s 12.2 million cotton hectares came from illegal GMO seeds in 2018
A farm group said its members had planted a variety of genetically modified cotton seeds which have not been approved ...
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 ...
Golden Rice, Part 4: Cost-effective GMO crop can save lives and dramatically boost developing economies
Golden Rice is safe, and there is excellent human evidence that it will work ...
Indian geneticist: ‘Policy paralysis’ on biotech crops threatens country’s food production
An Indian farmer has been found illegally growing a genetically modified (GM) aubergine. The event immediately sparked anti-GM protests and ...
Viewpoint: India should stop bowing to ‘mindless opposition’ and approve GMO Bt eggplant
A couple of decades ago, some of our brightest gene scientists in India took the genes of a commonly found ...
Monsanto ‘abused’ market dominance in India to inflate GMO seed prices, investigators say
A probe by the investigations unit of India’s antitrust body has found that Monsanto abused its dominant position as a ...
Golden Rice, Part 2: Will nutritionally enhanced rice work and help solve malnutrition in developing countries?
For more than a quarter of a century, vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has been recognized by the United Nations as ...
Viewpoint: India’s GMO Bt eggplant ban drives farmers to buy black market biotech seeds
Bt brinjal [is] being illegally cultivated in the country—the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources has just confirmed this for ...
Indian farmers grow illegal insect-resistant Bt eggplant to control destructive pests, as government lags on approval
Farmers in Haryana and experts fear widespread contamination of genetically modified (GM) brinjal or eggplant in the state with a ...
India’s move to cut Monsanto’s GMO cotton royalties may discourage biotech industry investment
India has cut the royalties that local seed companies pay to German drugmaker Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit for the third ...
While Americans are ambivalent about plant-based ‘clean meat’ protein alternatives, Chinese and Indians are enthusiastic
Would you eat a burger grown from animal cells rather than a whole cow? What about a plant-based burger, once ...
Reexamining the agricultural ‘Green Revolution’: Did Norman Borlaug really save a billion people from starvation?
A memorable episode of The West Wing....features a President Nimbala of a fictive African republic. Nimbala holds forth at a press ...
India’s Supreme Court refuses to halt investigation into Monsanto’s alleged anti-competitive practices
The Supreme Court on [February 18] refused to stay a Competition Commission of India (CCI) investigation into the alleged anti-competitive ...
Monsanto wins arbitration ruling against Indian seed company in dispute over GMO cotton patent
German drugmaker Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit has won proceedings against Indian seed maker Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd (NSL) in a royalty ...
Indian biotech research may get a boost from court ruling that upheld Monsanto’s patent on GMO cotton
Some scientists in India have welcomed a supreme court ruling that reinstates a patent on genetically modified cotton that had ...
Heated legal battle in India over Monsanto’s Bt insect-resistant cotton ‘far from over’
On January 8, a two-judge Bench of the [Indian] Supreme Court set aside an order of a Division Bench of ...
India’s agriculture and biotech agencies announce plan to promote crop biotech research
[India's] Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has undertaken several activities and programs to promote biotechnology research and development [R&D] in the ...
Monsanto’s patent victory in India may grant farmers access to latest GMO crops
Monsanto’s [recent] victory in a patent case in India regarding genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds has raised hopes among farmers ...
Monsanto retains patent on GMO Bt cotton in India, nation’s Supreme Court rules
Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit won a legal battle to own patents on genetically-modified cotton seeds in India, the world’s biggest producer of ...
India should give its farmers access to more GMO crops, scientist argues
Amid rising concerns over .... Genetically Modified (GM) crops in India, leading biologist Nina Fedoroff has suggested that it [is] ...
