The team members, all wearing 'bollgard' caps and accompanied by company officials from Mahyco-Monsanto, actually saw the standing crop in ten acres (out of the 9,300 acres sown with Bt cotton) and ...

Cotton field in Maharashtra, India, December 2011 (Photo by Megumi Manzaki) NEW DELHI, India, August 9, 2012 (ENS) – This was a difficult day for the proponents of genetically modified crops in India.

IT is an issue that has raged across the globe, with proponents and opponents engaged in heated, often vicious debates and vociferously holding on to their respective positions. Genetically modified ...

Political posturing aligned with commercial interests means that truth is becoming a casualty in the debate about genetically modified (GM) crops in India. The industry narrative surrounding Bt cotton ...

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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - In a tiny hamlet at the heart of the cotton belt in northern India, Ramandeep Mann planted Monsanto's genetically modified Bt cotton seed for over a decade, but that ...

Vincent Egesa examines a ginning machine in Mulwanda Ginnery in Busia County. The phase one establishment of the facility cost sh30m with phase two set to cost sh36m which will be a sigh to BT Cotton ...

“Everybody is doing it. So we are too,” said Rupa Pirikaka, somewhat uncertainly. ‘It’ is genetically modified (GM) Bt cotton seeds, now easily bought at the local market, or even in one’s own village ...