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
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBt technologyJune 23, 2019A 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…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyBt technologyJune 17, 2019Dispelling 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…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyMarch 18, 2019Despite 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)…Read more 0 0 0 Share
