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AgriTech could add $90 billion to Southeast Asia’s GDP by 2033: ReportWhile investments have seen a recent decline due to structural challenges, opportunities abound in digital value chains, AgriFinTech, deep ...
Supreme Court to hear Monsanto plea over GM cotton patentsA Delhi High Court bench had said in an April 11 ruling that Monsanto’s patent was not valid under Section 3(j) of the Patent Act.
Monsanto up over 3 per cent on withdrawal of Bt cotton notificationAmid opposition from the crop biotech industry, the government yesterday withdrew a notification capping royalty for new genetically modifi...
India should look beyond Bt cotton; revisit Bt brinjal: ISAAAIndia 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...
Talks of ban on GM crop trials is disappointing: Biotech companiesReps of Swadeshi Jagran Manch and Bhartiya Kissan Sangh met Prakash Javadekar yesterday, seeking a ban on field trials of genetically-modif...
CIFA opposes SC panel recommendations on biotech cropsFarmers body CIFA today opposed the recommendations of the Supreme Court-appointed committee to ban field trials of biotech crops saying su...
- GM crops cannot be abandoned completely, says Jaipal Reddy
He also prescribed a "cautious path" over the issue saying there have been different views among the scientists and civil society.
Genetically modified crops gaining ground in China: ReportChina has developed four million hectares genetically modified (GM) crops, becoming one of the world leaders in biotech farming, a report o...
- 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.
- Remove moratorium on Bt Brinjal: Biotech body
Industry body for agri-biotech sector ABLE today asked the government to remove the moratorium on commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal.
Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw supports GM crop technologyOpposing the GM (Genetically Modified) crop technology would take the country on a wrong path, Biocon Chairman and Managing Director Kiran ...
- Panel report on GM crops lacks focus: Biotech companies
The Association of Biotech Led Enterprises-Agriculture Group (ABLE-AG), an association body of leading biotech companies in India, today sa...
- Neighbours set for a BT harvest, what about India?
The seeds fight off pests, diseases, and yield more from the same farm. In short, they reduce the risks and raise the returns - every farme...
- 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...
- ‘Lack of biotech food safety is a myth’
It is a bogey of the anti-GM lobby to keep harping that Indian farmers will become slaves to MNCs.
- '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...
- GM crops hold key to food security: Expert
India, which recorded the fastest growth in genetically modified (GM) crop adoption globally, could attain food self sufficiency once it al...
- DuPont to set up biotech research centre in H’bad
DuPont India, subsidiary of the US-based $29-billion EI Du Pont de Nemours, will set up a plant biotech research centre at the DuPont Knowl...