Agri-biotechnologyGM CropsSeptember 18, 2020Why GEAC's Nod to Beej Sheetal for Safety Trials on Bt Brinjal will End up Confounding the Company and Farmers By vivian fernandes The GEAC has allowed Beej (or Bejo) Sheetal to do BRL-II bio-safety trials on Bt brinjal. But Vivian…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingSeptember 12, 2020Eight Farmers from Eight States Endorse Bt Cotton and Call Upon the Govt to Make GM Technology Available in Other Crops By vivian fernandes Farmers endorsed Bt cotton technology and asked the government not to deny them access to improved…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyJuly 20, 2020Govt is the Biggest Bottleneck to Achieving Self-Reliance in Seeds and Fertiliser: Ashok Gulati By vivian fernandes Agricultural economist Ashok Gulati sounds like a washing machine on perpetual spin in his weekly…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyHybridsJanuary 30, 2020India's Genome-Editing Draft Guidelines are Needlessly Restrictive By vivian fernandes At long last, the Department of Biotechnology has ended the suspense by publishing draft genome…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingJanuary 25, 2020Budget 2020: For Agriculture, It Must Signal Change of Course in Favour of Science & Technology, and Private Investments By vivian fernandes There has been too much emphasis on traditional and organic agriculture in the previous budgets of…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyOctober 8, 2019India Should Not Follow the EU in Extending GM Regulations to Gene Editing: Prof. C. S. Prakash By vivian fernandes C. S. Prakash is a professor of plant genetics, biotechnology and genomics at Tuskegee University…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBiodiversityBriefingGM CropsGM EndorsementsOctober 6, 2019The International Rice Research Institute Gave Us the Green Revolution in Rice: What is it up to Now? By vivian fernandes I remember my grandmother, a widowed smallholder farmer sowing ‘Ayarate,’ a newly-introduced…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingSeptember 25, 2019Deepak Pental says in Current Science that M.S. Swaminathan is Speaking the Language of Ideologues and Environmental Evangelists By vivian fernandes Geneticist and former Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental has come out strongly against…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyJuly 22, 2019HTBt Not Needed For Cotton Fields To Be Sprayed With Weedicide, Says Excel Crop Care Executive By vivian fernandes While farmers of Maharashtra and Haryana are planting HTBt cotton tolerant to the herbicide…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBriefingBt technologyJuly 7, 2019Protest Planting of Unapproved HTBt Cotton: What's the Way Out? By vivian fernandes The government cannot approve the cultivation of HTBt cotton because the technology is…Read more 0 0 0 Share
