The Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises

Research projects on at least 36 genetically modified crops including rice, okra, brinjal, potato, groundnut and tomato are under process, the government told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

G. Srinivasan

Crossing for the seedlings done manually every day at two farms

Hand picked:A labourer spraying pollen grains on flowers of a coconut tree in the Agricultural Research Centre in Pattukottai on Tuesday.

For quite sometime now, Goa has been witnessing artificial ripening of bananas posing health hazard to the consumer. Hopefully this will be thing of the past, to a great extent, as the Goa State Horticultural Corporation has plans to set up state-of-the-art ripening facility.

Ludhiana: Punjab Agricultural University has decided to take back PAU 201 paddy seed and replace it with PR-120 or PR-111, the other varities recommended by university experts.

Taking the initiative in favour of the farming community, PAU officials today called upon the interested farmers to get a replacement of paddy seed PAU-201 at the earliest.

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V Gangadharan

CHENNAI: Researchers at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University couldn

ANDREW POLLACK

Critics of biotechnology, who say the crops may be risky to health and the environment, have issued studies say- ing the use of the crops has resulted in increased reliance on pesticides and has had only a minimal effect on crop yields.

District in-charge minister Dr Mumtaz Ali Khan has suggested farmers in the parched district to adopt scientific methods in agriculture.