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January 30, 2020

India'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…
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January 25, 2020

Budget 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…
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October 8, 2019

India 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…
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October 6, 2019

The 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…
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September 25, 2019

Deepak 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…
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July 22, 2019

HTBt 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…
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July 7, 2019

Protest 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…
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June 23, 2019

A Gandhian Satyagraha Rolls Out form Akoli Jahangir Village for an Un-Gandhian Purpose: Access to GM Technology

By vivian fernandes
Vivian Fernandes was present at Akoli Jahangir village, in Akot near Akola in Maharashtra when about…
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June 17, 2019

Dispelling Falsehoods about GM Crops: What India Can Learn from the Philippines

By vivian fernandes
Vivian Fernandes was in the Philippines recently. He reports on the country’s advocacy and…
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Agri-biotechnology
March 18, 2019

Despite Windfall, Cottonseed Industry Sulks at Ag Ministry’s Price Order; Agbiotech Companies Jolted by Slash in Trait Fees

By vivian fernandes
With the latest price revision on 8 March of the most popular variety of genetically-modified (GM)…
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