HomeNewsOpinionA flood of illegal GM cotton underscores India’s policy failures on GM crops

A flood of illegal GM cotton underscores India’s policy failures on GM crops

R Srinivasan • May 13, 2022 / 14:30 IST

Desperate farmers, faced with ever increasing input costs and newly emerging threats to yields from resistant pests, are voting with their feet and simply planting GM crops, illegal or not. This unregulated mixing of GM foods into the agriculture supply chain has unforeseeable consequences of the environment as well as safety of consumers

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