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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The International Rice Research Institute Gave Us the Green Revolution in Rice: What is it up to Now?
I remember my grandmother, a widowed smallholder farmer sowing ‘Ayarate,’ a newly-introduced wheat variety that was the talk of her village. It was the late 1960s or early 1970s. IR8 was a semi-dwarf and high-yielding variety...
Centre for Science and Environment is Wrong: Import of GM Food is Allowed and it isn’t Unregulated
Vivain Fernandes counters the allegations of Delhi’s Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) that the import of food containing GM plant material is disallowed and that the imports are happening without regulatory approval...
Some Bt Cottonseed Companies Invited Govt to Do Price Control; Now They’re All Regretting It
Vivian Fernandes reports on the perils of inviting the government to control cottonseed prices nationally. This article was first published in the Financial Express. In August 2015, its 27 members had asked the National Seed...
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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...
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Dispelling Falsehoods about GM Crops: What India Can...
Govt Policies Have Shrunk Mahyco’s Ag Biotech Research...
Centre for Science and Environment is Wrong: Import of...
Why the Delhi High Court Struck Down Monsanto’s...
