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The only transgenic crop grown in India is Bt cotton developed by injecting a toxin from a soil bacterium called Bacillus Thuringiensis [Bt] into a cotton seed through a highly sophisticated process. When planted the seed produces a highly toxic cotton plant.
May 20, 2012 at 18:18 | Source: deccanchronicle.com
The Punjab agriculture department production target of 19.40-lakh cotton bales this year, up from 16.97-lakh bales of last year, may not be met. Over the past 15 years, poor techniques of sowing and cultivation have pushed the yield lower and ...
May 18, 2012 at 16:40 | Source: Hindustan Times
Haveri, May 11 : Karnataka Public Works Minister C M Udasi today said that the Government has arranged to distribute 18,000 packets of Kanaka cotton BT seeds to the farmers so far and another 10,000 packets will be distributed soon after they are received.
May 11, 2012 at 14:54 | Source: New Kerala
The same full page appeared twice in three years, the first time as news, the second time as an advertisement. “Not a single person from the two villages has committed suicide.” Three and a half years ago, at a time when the controversy over ...
May 10, 2012 at 23:59 | Source: Counter Punch
“The vidarbha agrarian crisis after June 2005 when Maharashtra Govt. gave permission tp cultivate transgenic cotton crop grown known as Bt cotton developed by injecting a toxin from a soil bacterium called Bacillus Thuringiensis [Bt] into a cotton seed ...
May 22, 2012 at 10:16 | Source: PR-USA.net
Although the biosafety act is now in place, GMO opponents in Kenya still believe the country is not capable of protecting indigenous crops from the gene contamination, even as the country is set to release the first GM seed of Bt cotton this year.
May 8, 2012 at 00:32 | Source: AllAfrica.com
In India, for example, GM seed giant Monsanto has aggressively marketed its premium-priced, patented Bt cotton seeds to small scale farmers, to the point where in swaths of the country, no other cotton seeds are available, according to a report ...
May 25, 2012 at 09:23 | Source: Mother Jones
The Study showed that Bt-toxin, a pesticide now routinely genetically engineered into GE corn and cotton, had been found in the blood of both pregnant women and also their fetuses, as well as women who are not pregnant. The study also discovered that ...
May 25, 2012 at 14:09 | Source: Digital Journal
But now there is technology, which can increase the shelf life of tomatoes. We just have to make use of it.” Citing the success of Bt-cotton, Dr Dwarkesh Parihar, chief scientist at Shriram Bioseeds, said people have not been informed and educated ...
May 9, 2012 at 18:46 | Source: deccanchronicle.com
ABLE-AG, an association of leading biotech companies like Bayer, Monsanto, Mahyco, Advanta amongst others, is of the view that since Bt cotton has catapulted the country from being a net importer to an exporter in the last one decade ...
May 16, 2012 at 14:34 | Source: in.com