EPA nixes approval of new weed killer for engineered crops
The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn approval of a controversial new weed killer to be used on genetically...
View ArticleIn Tamil Naidu, Public Sector Insurance Companies to organise awareness camps...
(Source: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of India) Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 07-December-2015 20:40 IST In Tamil Naidu, Public Sector Insurance Companies to...
View ArticleKidney bean king kills wheat-paddy cycle
Amritsar: Going against even the expert advice, a progressive farmer of Amritsar district took a divergent path to reap profits. Unlike majority of farmers in Punjab, Surinder Singh Randhawa and his...
View ArticleEPA nixes approval of new weed killer for engineered crops
The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn approval of a controversial new weed killer to be used on genetically...
View ArticleMonsanto, BASF shares jump on Govt move to permit GM crop field trials
Shares of agri-biotech companies such as Monsanto India and BASF India jumped in the early trade on Friday tracking the Government’s decision to allow field trials of the genetically modified (GM)...
View ArticleAgriculture ministry to make its preference of GM crops loud and clear...
NEW DELHI: As the Supreme Court is set to resume hearing on controversial GM crop issues from next month, the agriculture ministry may in Parliament on Tuesday try to allay the concerns of civil...
View ArticleBt cotton: Govt admits Monsanto never had patent in India
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...
View ArticleGovt gives green signal for field trials of GM crops
Reversing his predecessor Jayanti Natarajan’s stance, M Veerappa Moily, Minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Environment, has approved the biotech regulator – Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee...
View ArticleBJP asks its MPs not to go on Monsanto-sponsored US trip amid pressure from...
NEW DELHI: Amid pressure from the RSS-linked organization Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) that has been opposed to field trials of GM crops in India, the BJP on Friday asked its three party MPs not to...
View ArticleBJP asks its MPs not to go on Monsanto-sponsored US trip amid pressure from...
NEW DELHI: Amid pressure from the RSS-linked organization Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) that has been opposed to field trials of GM crops in India, the BJP on Friday asked its three party MPs not to...
View ArticleThe GMO in your mustard is good
Personalities that aspire to be cult figures often resort to hyperbole and lies and Vandana Shiva has done exactly this in her piece, GMO in my mustard, which appeared in this newspaper on August 12,...
View ArticleIndia will soon be game for GM crops
The pro-technology Modi government is desperate to introduce genetically modified (GM) crops. It is now holding closed-door meetings with the right wing-affiliated groups – the Swadeshi Jagran Manch...
View ArticleAgriculture activists slam IB report, say it's not intelligent
NEW DELHI: The controversial Intelligence Bureau (IB) report that accuses foreign funded NGOs to be a threat to India's economic security is being thrashed by activists for not just the kind of...
View ArticleField trials of 13 genetically modified crops put on hold: Prakash Javadekar
NEW DELHI: Environment minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the government has decided to keep in abeyance the decision by the statutory committee of genetic engineering to allow field trials of 13...
View ArticleParliamentary panel slams Moily over field trials issue of GM crops
NEW DELHI: Recent government's decision to allow field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops has come under severe attack of a parliamentary committee which criticized the environment minister...
View ArticleBJP MPs to stay out of Monsanto tour
Saturday, 23 August 2014 - 6:45am IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA Amita Shah Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit After global seed giant Monsanto offered to sponsor...
View ArticleCommercial Bt-Brinjal seeds 'infiltrating' Bengal from Bangladesh
Mohanpur (West Bengal), November 05: The West Bengal government Wednesday claimed it has received information regarding "infiltration" of commercial seeds of Bt-Brinjal, a genetically modified (GM)...
View ArticleAnbumani writes to govt against GM mustard
CHENNAI: PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the central government to reconsider a proposal to approve genetically modified (GM) mustard,...
View ArticleFarmers demand hoisting of non-Bt cotton flag on Independence Day
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of farmers and members of the GM free coalition symbolically gifted an Indian flag made of organic cotton to the prime minister on Thursday. The flag, they said is a symbol of their...
View ArticleNGOs protest against GM mustard trials in Punjab
BATHINDA: Perturbed over field trials being conducted to prepare ground for the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard, the Punjab chapter of the NGO —Coalition for GM free India' and Kheti...
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