- GM crops gaining ground in China: Report
China has developed four million hectares genetically modified (GM) crops a report on the status of commercialised GM crops said.
- Biotech crops helped check 19 bn kg of CO2 last year: Report
A world agriculture body has estimated that biotech plant technology helped in preventing the release of 19 billion kg of carbon dioxide in...
- 'India losing competitive advantage by saying no to GM tech'
India is losing competitive advantage due to hesitancy to widely adopted "risk-free" biotech crop technique.
Stop worrying about veggie prices: Use biotech to increase crop yield, fight food inflationBiotech can increase crop yield dramatically, and fight food inflation. Farmers are ready for reform, research is peaking. Now, govt has to...
- 'India, developing countries grew 43% biotech crops in 2010'
The five principal developing countries growing biotech crops - China, India, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa - planted 63 million hecta...
- Surging prices may boost demand for GM crops
Biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops have got a booster shot after world commodity prices soared in 2008, in the form of increased po...
- India fourth largest adopter of biotech crop in the world
India became the fourth largest adopter of biotech crop in the world, displacing Canada, in 2008 and planting Bt cotton on 7.6 million hect...
- India turns second largest cotton producer after China
India has overtaken the US to become the second largest cotton producing country in the world, after China.
- India becomes second largest cotton producing country
India has overtaken the US to become the second largest cotton producing country in the World, after China, a study by International Servic...
- Govt ferments biotech-based plan to tap into EU sugar mkt
The government is mulling a biotech-based plan for breaking into the 4 million-tonne market for sugar that is getting vacated in the EU fol...
- Ground reality: Bt cotton crop rises to 8.6 m acres
Refuting the government’s claims on the area under Bt cotton in the country, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech ...
- States team up to take on US co on Bt cotton price
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...