“Taste this,” says the unusually named Soviet Taludhar, passing me some lettuce leaves. Eating Nepali salad is normally nerve wracking due to the food poisoning risk – this time it was a pleasure.All the fruit and vegetables grown on this ground-breaking farm are organic, in a country where localised excessive fertilizer and pesticide use is damaging the land.

A must-read op-ed on an important issue - the issue needs a lot of careful analysis and debate, particularly given that the underlying science changes rapidly. Regardless of the position one holds about GM crops, and their necessity as part of our food supply (and it is not clear that the case for their necessity is as clear-cut), the op-ed makes a number of important points about policy and regulatory design.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article2752711.ece?homepage=true

I suggest that the Government of India issues the following statement of policy on production, use and release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).