Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops

Calls for a national policy on GM crops in its report to Parliament

Dealing with crop stresses and scandals

Subbanna Ayyappan has made history in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (IACR) by becoming the first non-crop scientist to head this …

Civil society groups appeal against sacrificing biosafety for biotech companies

 Urge governments to implement biosafety protocols and adopting cautious approach towards risky technologies like genetic engineering 

Monsanto conducted trials of GM maize without approval, reveals RTI reply

Biotech regulatory panel overlooked violation

Field report

Bt cotton farmers in Karnataka are an insecure and confused lot, and neither the government, nor Mahyco or the anti-Mahyco groups are any help at all

White gold rush

Despite several government programmes, cotton cultivation is riddled with problems

Deadly concoctions

Farmers are not fully aware of the consequences of using chemical pesticides

The GM snare

Diminishing returns

Bt gene harms GM plant

New answers to old questions on biosafety of GM crops

Manipulating Research

Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning …

Beyond failure

What of the Doha round? What of the WTO itself?

In the snakepit

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn't

The GM question

Are hybrid maize seeds being promoted to pave the way for GM maize?

GEAC has power only to withdraw permission

Arjula R Reddy, a plant geneticist, was appointed co-chairperson of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) in 2009. At present, he …

Why do farmers have to die?

Why do farmers have to die?

The secret gardens of Malabar

An English translation has been made exactly 300 years after the Hortus Malabricus was written, new, sinister designs seem to lurking behind it - …

Cotton quandary

As China, the world's biggest cotton buyer, restricts imports, the US aggressively competes with India for global market. Can India stay in the …

Saying no to Monsanto

The Indian patent office has once again rejected the biotech seed giant’s claim for a method to produce stress-tolerant transgenic plants

Drained royally by MNCs

Royalty payments to firms like Suzuki and Monsanto are sucking out huge sums from India

GM and the superhero

New Independence struggle

Rogue GM crops wreak havoc

Monsanto’s unauthorised GM wheat in the US has spooked the world, but contamination is widespread

Cotton-eating monsters lay low the farmers

Cotton farmers in northwest India were taken by surprise when, despite a pesticide blitzkrieg, the American bollworm devastated half their crops. …