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Delhi High Court turns down PepsiCo's appeal against revocation of potato patentThe U.S. snacks and drinks maker, which set up its first potato chip plant in India in 1989, supplies the FC5 seed variety to a group of fa...- Biotech regulator recommends environmental release of GM mustardThe move comes amid opposition from green groups which say commercial cultivation of GM mustard could have an adverse impact on human healt...
- FSSAI draft norms on GM food unacceptable: ActivistsFSSAI should explicitly say GM foods will not be allowed into India by way of production or imports, Coalition for GM-Free India, which Kur...
- PepsiCo's IPR on FL-2027 potato variety revokedPPV&FR is a statutory body set up under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001. The authority ruling came over a p...
- Women farmers take centre stage at protest sitesNoting that women contribute significantly to the country's farming sector, the organisers have laid out elaborate plans to let women farme...
- Union ministers meet farmer groups to break deadlock over agri lawsOn January 4, the seventh round of talks ended inconclusively as the unions stuck to their demand for a complete repeal of three farm laws,...
- India considers changing new farm laws after mass protests"The government is open to look into various amendments," a government official told Reuters, ahead of a meeting between farmers and minist...
- Many farm leaders welcome agricultural reforms despite some resistance in Punjab and HaryanaThe bills remove restrictions on sale and transportation of farm produce and allows them to enter into contracts with large buyers at an as...
- Government bans 12 pesticides with immediate effect, activists say not enoughActing on advice of an expert committee, the Centre has banned use of 12 pesticides with immediate effect and issued orders for banning six...
- Civil society groups flag loopholes in draft National Forest Policy; Oppose PPP model of afforestationOver 100 civil society organisations from 15 states have flagged several loopholes in the Centre’s draft National Forest Policy 2018 and qu...
- 10% drop in farm suicides, 11,000 cases in 2016: GovtActivists punch holes in the provisional figures shared by the government saying the dip in numbers was due to a tweak in the categories.
- Sangh farmers' outfit joins anti-GM groups against transgenic mustardThe Bhartiya Kisan Sangh, farmers' group linked to the RSS, on Wednesday joined hands with anti-GM groups in their protest against regulato...
- Farmers, activists demand immediate rollback of approval for GM MustardThe protesters believed that the GM crops will affect farmers in the long run and went to question the legitimacy of the approval given by ...
- 120 organisations to protest at Jantar Mantar to oppose GM mustardKuruganti said more than 10 organisations from Gujarat are also expected to take part in the protest.
- No health expert in panel to examine GM mustard biosafety dataGenetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) had constituted a sub-committee of scientific experts to examine the biosafety data on GM mu...
- CIC issues show cause notice to scientists in Environment MinistryHe said the public authority did not honour its own commitment to furnish the details and on June 28, 2016 they sought another extension, t...
- Central regulator poised to give its nod to GM mustard; Activists raise objectionsIf the decision finally goes in favour of the commercial release of the GM mustard, it will be the first food crop to be cleared for cultiv...
- Farmers groups seek livelihood security from political partiesThe Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) along with other NGOs today urged all political parties to include livelihood security for farm households i...
- Farmers seek ban on GM crops in IndiaFarmers today demanded a complete ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and food in India saying it would not only affect humans and lives...
- Activists cry foul trials of Bt brinjalIn allowing large-scale trials of Bt Brinjal, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the environment ministry may have violat...
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