Biotechnology Bill: deadline for public feedback extended

Parliamentary committee has extended date till August 25; activists demand public consultations across the country in regional languages

India cannot afford organic farming

S K SINHA national professor at the Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, spoke to Manish Tiwari on food …

Children of endosulfan

Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of …

Is the joyride over ?

There was fear in the 1960s. Would India continue to wait for food imports to feed itself? The scientific community came up with an answer that …

Western Ghats: lessons in protection

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

Brief

Bauxite mines in Andhra Pradesh draw tribals' ire

France extends GM corn ban

Supreme Court criticized for giving clearance to Bt Brinjal

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India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Test tube brinjal

Indian regulators are keen to clear Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. This would be India’s first genetically modified food crop. If …

ICAR to launch tuber crops scheme in Attappady

Kerala chief minister claims it will provide food and livelihood security of tribals

Does Cry1Ac gene harm plants?

A new Indian study says yes, but scientists differ  

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

GM purple tomatoes to fight cardiovascular diseases

UK-based Cathie Martin to start clinical trials soon; green activists protest and call trials ‘violation of European Union norms’

Just like a forest

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

Maize Mania

Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …

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Endosulfan manufacturers seek time on how to dispose of unused stocks of the pesticide

Supreme Court to meet on November 11

Doomsday vault in Arctic to save crop diversity

Food vs fuel

Brazil gives go-ahead to GM corns

No labelling for GM food

New food safety regulation ignores it despite a four-year-old law