Agriculture accounts for almost half of all employment but only 14% of GDP. India must move people out of agriculture into industry and ser...

Monsanto 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...

Various studies published between 2002 and 2012 did not find any significant hazard to human health, biodiversity or the environment caused...

Recent measures (on tax, drug controls and cotton seeds) suggest the government is arbitrary, populist and scornful of the sanctity of cont...

Thomas said he as a parliamentarian supports GM food, but favoured an awareness campaign to clear whatever doubts people have about it.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw says the best way to counter Monsanto's "monopoly" in cotton seed sector is to develop similar technologies.

Govt has opposed suggestions to ban open-field trials of genetically modified crops, telling SC that any such move will be detrimental to f...

Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) alleged that global seeds major Monsanto was secretly running a signature campaign in rural Gujarat.

The Congress has asked spokesman and eminent lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi not to address any press conferences for the time being.

Cartelisation among state governments to cap the price of Bt cotton seed has brought the domestic and multinational seed companies on a com...

Dupont, 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 has started a country-wide campaign to attract Indian talents into the development of high yielding and hybrid rice and whea...

The 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, an environmental activist group sounded an alert in New Delhi on Friday on the presence of Genetically Modified (GM) corn in In...

A large number of cotton growers have now moved to genetically modified (GM) cotton, popularly known as Bt cotton.

Cotton belts are likely to tell a different story this year. With most farmers shifting to hybrid cotton varieties, experts say the state i...

The BJP on Thursday slammed the price-control measures announced by the Manmohan Singh government, terming them as "too little, too late," ...