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Trump issues order to support production of glyphosate: Why has US President’s executive order irked MAHA Moms? All you need to knowPresident Trump has ordered an increase in domestic glyphosate production, citing food security and national defense needs. This move, howe...- AI will soon be able to audit all published research - what will that mean for public trust in science?Science relies on self-correction, especially through peer review, but flaws still slip through. With AI's growing ability to detect errors...
- Who is Robert F Kennedy Jr, Health and Human Services SecretaryPresident-elect Donald Trump has appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental attorney and noted anti-vaccine advocate, to lead the US...
- Moving matches out of Maharashtra won't help farmers, GM crops willAgriculture accounts for almost half of all employment but only 14% of GDP. India must move people out of agriculture into industry and ser...
- How Monsanto found an able adversary in the Sangh parivaarMonsanto has been hit with price control in India. How did the MNC, known worldwide for its lobbying prowess, end up with grief in India? E...
- GM crops: Government should set up an independent regulator at the earliestVarious studies published between 2002 and 2012 did not find any significant hazard to human health, biodiversity or the environment caused...
- 'Make in India' is hit by government schizophreniaRecent measures (on tax, drug controls and cotton seeds) suggest the government is arbitrary, populist and scornful of the sanctity of cont...
- Encouraging GM food crops only way out for India: K V ThomasThomas said he as a parliamentarian supports GM food, but favoured an awareness campaign to clear whatever doubts people have about it.
- Counter Monsanto monopoly with 'desi' technology: Kiran Mazumdar-ShawKiran Mazumdar-Shaw says the best way to counter Monsanto's "monopoly" in cotton seed sector is to develop similar technologies.
- Government against ban on open-field trials of GM crops, sees food security threatGovt has opposed suggestions to ban open-field trials of genetically modified crops, telling SC that any such move will be detrimental to f...
- Monsanto secretly campaigning for GM food crops in Gujarat, alleges Bharatiya Kisan SanghBharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) alleged that global seeds major Monsanto was secretly running a signature campaign in rural Gujarat.
- Singhvi asked to lie low after Kerala Cong's complaintThe Congress has asked spokesman and eminent lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi not to address any press conferences for the time being.
- Seeds industry unites, opposes move to check Bt cotton priceCartelisation among state governments to cap the price of Bt cotton seed has brought the domestic and multinational seed companies on a com...
- DuPont enters India's cotton-seed marketDupont, one of the world’s top five seed companies, has acquired Nandi Seeds and the cotton germplasm business of Nagarjuna Seeds in India.
- Monsanto India aims at developing hybrid seedsMonsanto India has started a country-wide campaign to attract Indian talents into the development of high yielding and hybrid rice and whea...
- Food crisis payback for '20 years of mistakes': UN expertThe UN's new top advisor on food blamed two decades of wrong-headed policies by world powers for the food crisis sweeping the globe, in a s...
- Greenpeace alert on genetically modified corn in Indian food productsGreenpeace, an environmental activist group sounded an alert in New Delhi on Friday on the presence of Genetically Modified (GM) corn in In...
- Farmers cotton on to GM codeA large number of cotton growers have now moved to genetically modified (GM) cotton, popularly known as Bt cotton.
- Hybrid cotton set to reap bumper resultsCotton belts are likely to tell a different story this year. With most farmers shifting to hybrid cotton varieties, experts say the state i...
- BJP asks govt to roll back fuel price hikeThe BJP on Thursday slammed the price-control measures announced by the Manmohan Singh government, terming them as "too little, too late," ...
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