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Brinjal debacle still raw, Bt rice on course
Mahyco confident of regulatory approvals, plans launch within a year. Bt brinjal may have gone into the deep freezer, but that has hardly dampened the enthusiasm of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co (Mahyco) from coming up with new genetically modified (GM) crops. Mahyco now plans to introduce Bt rice and Bt okra (bhindi) for commercial production in a year’s time. Mahyco managing director Raju Barwale

Half-baked policy

Protest comes in entertaining forms these days. In cooking the biggest-ever baigan ka bharta with only organically-grown baigan (brinjal or egg plant), a group of environmental activists

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Raghuvansh Prasad Singh: BRAI Bill - Bulldozing public opinion

The government has finalised the draft of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill. A close reading of the draft shows that, on the one hand, this Bill intends to provide

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Mahyco defends action in Bt brinjal trials
Seed company, Mahyco has clarified it has not violated any provision of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, in its research to develop Bt Brinjal.

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Non-pesticide cultivation also a reason for moratorium on BT Brinjal: Ramesh

Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh said that one of the reasons behind his decision to put a moratorium on commercialisation of BT Brinjal was the ongoing experiment of

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It's eating us
The aloo wars of 2005 are now barely remembered, but for a brief while, the question of whether Indian potatoes were infected or not became a cross-border issue.

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