In order to update agriculture stakeholders regarding future technology, world’s leading seed company Monsanto arranged an official showcase of its new technology at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad’s (UAF) farm land. ...
Tags: Bt cotton, agriculture, cotton business
In a shot heard round the GM world,Mark Lynas,a pioneer in the anti-GM movement,came out as a full-fledged advocate of genetic crop modification. Speaking at a farming conference Jan.3,in Oxford,England,Lynas'blunt words served as both ...
Tags: GM, organic, farming system, anti-GM
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR)would investigate the issue related to developing Bt cotton from a gene patented by a US firm,raised by the Sopory panel,S Ayappan,director general of ICAR has said. Speaking to media ...
Tags: Bt cotton, ICAR, Sopory Panel
The Colombian experience of growing Bt cotton can be replicated in Kenya, and it would boost the performance of Kenyan agricultural sector, according to an expert. Dr. Charles Waturu, the Centre Director of Kenya Agricultural Research ...
The use of intellectual property rights (IPR) is one of the most important -- yet largely unfortunate -- developments of globalization and has severely hindered scientific development by restricting the proliferation of knowledge. That ...
Genetically modified (GM) crops like Bt cotton do more harm than being thought of, according to an expert from the Small Planet Institute at Massachusetts in the US. At an event organized alongside CoP-11 (XI Conference of the Parties ...
Tags: Genetically modified crops, Bt cotton, bollworm, Rollefson, textile
Shri Harish Rawat, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries has informed that the area under cotton cultivation as well as total cotton production in the country has been showing an increasing trend for the past few ...
Tags: market view, cotton