Bowing to political pressure, India scraps plans to trial GM, insect-resistant, Bt eggplant

Bowing to political pressure, India scraps plans to trial GM, insect-resistant, Bt eggplant

Times of India | 
[The Indian government] has junked its decision of allowing scientific field trials of transgenic crops including indigenously developed Bt brinjal.  ...
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Anti-GMO activists move to block Bt insect-resistant eggplant field trials in India

Times of India | 
Ten years after imposing a moratorium on commercial release of genetically modified Bt Brinjal, the [federal government] has now allowed ...
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India should ‘definitely adopt’ new GMO crops, nation’s top biotech cotton expert argues

Times of India | 
The logjam in approval of newer genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds [in India] has catalyzed planting of unauthorized seeds known ...
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India moves to restrict cultivation of illegal but easily acquired GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton

Times of India | 
Amid reports of cultivation of [an] unapproved variety of transgenic HTBt [herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant] cotton seeds, the Union environment ministry has ...
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Indian farmers highlight higher yields from banned GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton to defy nation’s biotech crop rules

Times of India | 
As farmers [headed] to Yavatmal in Maharashtra to showcase post-harvest success stories of banned [herbicide-tolerant] cotton on [Jan. 5], their ...
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Despite threat of arrest, pro-GMO protests in India spread across 11 districts in state of Maharashtra

Times of India | 
A ‘pro-GM seed’ movement, which had begun in one district of Maharashtra with farmers defying [a] ban on planting unapproved ...
India's food regulator proposes mandatory GMO labeling

India’s food regulator proposes mandatory GMO labeling

Times of India | 
Seeking to introduce GMO labelling for the first time in India, the country’s food regulator has proposed all packaged food products containing genetically modified ...
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India’s biotech regulator greenlights GMO mustard—But hurdles to commercialization remain

Times of India | 
India's central biotech regulator, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), on Thursday [May 11] cleared the genetically modified (GM) Mustard for ...

India unlikely to approve GMO mustard in time for coming growing season

Times of India | 
The debate around genetically modified crops and a recent PIL in the Supreme Court may force the government to delay ...
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Will GMO mustard suffer same fate as GMO eggplant in India?

Times of India | 
With the deadline of submitting comments of stakeholders on genetically modified mustard... coming to an end... both anti and pro-GM ...

India will listen to anti-GMO activists, but make science-based decision on GMO mustard

Times of India | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Moving ahead with the ...

India developing GMO drought tolerant sugarcane in face of water shortages

Times of India | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Indian Council ...

Father of India’s green revolution calls for more GMO field trials

Times of India | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At the time when ...

10 GM crops reapproved for ‘confined field trials’ in India

Times of India | 
Taking a major step forward to scientifically assess 'risk' and 'safety' aspects of transgenic crops, the Indian government's top regulator ...

Indian scientists develop 200 GM crops, await government nod for trials

Times of India | 
NEW DELHI: Do you think only 'Monsanto' (or any multi-national seed company) has the capacity to develop transgenic crops? The ...

Indian scientists back agriculture minister Pawar’s remarks on GM crops

Times of India | 
Emboldened by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar's current pitch in favour of scientific field trials for transgenic crops, top agriculture scientists of the ...

Pro-GM crops groups to pitch for use of biotech in farming in India

Times of India | 
Amid intense public debate over the impact of Genetically Modified (GM) crops on health and the environment, thousands of farmers ...

Objection to GM crops without assessment, Indian agriculture ministry says

Times of India | 
Dismissing concerns expressed by activists and civil society against use of genetically modified (GM) crops in the country, the Indian ...
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