The GEAC has allowed Beej (or Bejo) Sheetal to do BRL-II bio-safety trials on Bt brinjal. But Vivian Fernandes is not optimistic about farmers getting access to the technology even if the tests show that Bt brinjal is safe to...
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Bayer Says Its Short-Stature Maize Gives More Yield With Lesser Inputs Despite Denser Planting
One of the ways in which Bayer intends to make agriculture sustainable is through innovations like short-stature corn (maize). Liam Condon, President of Bayer’s Crop Science Division said at the company’s Future of Farming...
PM Modi Gives Farmers Freedom to Tap Markets but Not to Access...
The centre has overridden the states and brought in a law to give farmers a choice of agricultural...
Corteva Agriscience Pushes for Dense Planting of Maize Hybrids;...
One of the ways in which seed companies can drive their business is through densification of...
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Protest Planting of Unapproved HTBt Cotton: What’s the Way Out?
The government cannot approve the cultivation of HTBt cotton because the technology is Monsanto’s, which is now merged in Bayer. Vivian Fernandes suggests options. The protest planting of unapproved genetically-modified...