Cotton farmers now have an option of switching to non-BT or traditional hybrid varieties that have given comparable yields in trials.

India has so far permitted commercial cultivation of BT cotton and it was grown in 95% of the total cotton area of 12.25 mn hectare in 2014...

The company will continue to invest in research and development in India, said its newly appointed India chief executive, Shilpa Divekar Ni...

GEAC Chairman Hem Pande said "field trials for certain varieties of GM crops including rice, brinjal, chickpea, mustard and cotton had been...

There are no "credible scientific reports" to prove that GM crops have adverse impact on environment, human health and livestock, the gover...

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh expressed disappointment with his government for failing to put in place an independent regulator.

Considering biotechnology to be area of focus in improving farm productivity, Union Minister of State for Agriculture Tariq Anwar said ther...

The Parliamentary panel on agriculture had recommended to stop all open-field trials of transgenic crops.

A panel of scientists set up on the orders of the Supreme Court has recommended a ten-year moratorium on field trials of all genetically mo...

Dropping productivity of the cash crop despite BT recolution in the last decade is hoped to be sorted out through these trials, CITI said.

A leading seed company has contended that Bt brinjal hybrids have greater resistance to pests and significantly higher yield.

With the new environment minister Jairam Ramesh disfavouring genetically modified (GM) foods such as a variety of brinjal and tomato, the f...

More than 13 million farmers now plant biotech crops on 125 million hectares worldwide. India is the world’s fourth-largest grower of GM co...

While approvals have already been granted for field trials which are being done in the south, the company plans to undertake trials in a wi...

JK Agri Genetics aims to nearly triple its market share to eight per cent in this kharif season.

With the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the environment ministry putting off a key decision on granting approval for larg...

US Biotech seed major Monsanto is in for big trouble on the Bt cotton trait fee front. Nine top cotton-growing states of the country have d...