Nagpur: Thirteen years after US multinational Monsanto launched Bt cotton seeds in the country, the government has woken up to the fact that the first version of the genetically modified crop was not patented in India. Monsanto ended up earning huge royalties on the Bt seeds even without a patent, changing the economics of cotton farming in India. In 2002, Monsanto came up with the Bollgard version of the seeds, which have an inherent resistance against bollworm, a common pest for cotton crop. The Mon-531 or cry1Ac...
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