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The minister of environment and forests Jairam Ramesh, has finally responded positively to the storm of protests, and called off the government's decision to introduce the privately developed Bt brinjal seed for commercial cultivation. This is not for want of trying as a government panel had earlier decided to introduce …
RASHME SEHGAL The ordinary brinjal has won the day. Mounting pressure forced Union forests and environment minister Jairam Ramesh to revoke the decision of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee on Tuesday and defer commercial cultivation of what could have been India's first genetically modified vegetable crop. "There is no over-riding …
THE APPROVAL of Bt Brinjal by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has exposed the unscientific basis on which genetically-engineered crops are being commercialised, and it raises questions about the entire bio-safety process. The admission by the chair of the Expert Committee-II (EC-II), Dr Arjula Reddy, that Union agriculture minister …
NEW DELHI: India needs an independent biotechnology regulator and a transparent testing system, according to Union Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh, who declared a moratorium on Bt brinjal on Tuesday. As a first step in the transparency process, he said the Genetic Engineering Approvals Committee (GEAC), which had …
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday decided to put the commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal on hold, bowing to protests from activists, resistance from opposition as well as Congress governments and suspicions about the genetically modified crops. Union environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh announced that genetically modified brinjal varieties …
Jairam Ramesh Stressing that India needed to look at its seed industry, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said he believed in the fundamental primacy of the public sector seed industry.
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai February 10, 2010, 0:45 IST Sharad Pawar Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Sharad Pawar today said a new seed can be introduced only after the Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared it. He was reacting to the Centre
Scientists and activists have welcomed the decision of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to defer commercialisation of Bt brinjal. Even Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco), which created the genetically modified vegetable, said it respects the verdict.
NEW DELHI: Bt brinjal will not make it to your dinner table for now. On Tuesday, the Environment Ministry announced its decision to impose a moratorium on the release of the transgenic brinjal hybrid developed by Mahyco, a subsidiary of global seed giant Monsanto. The moratorium will last
HYDERABAD: Agriculture Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy, AP Ryotu Sangham, AP Rythu Sangham and the State unit of Swadeshi Jagran Manch on Tuesday hailed as
IN the wake of the mounting protests against the proposed introduction of Bt brinjal, the Tamil Nadu Agr i c u l t u r a l U n ive r s i t y (TNAU) Vice-Chancellor P Murugesa Boopathi said the institute would not go ahead with its plan …
Ministry of Environment and Forests decision on commercialisation of Bt-Brinjal. See also: http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/Annex_BT.pdf
